Breaking Out: An Indian Woman's American Journey

by Padma Desai

Book Overview

The brave and moving memoir of a woman's journey of transformation: from a sheltered Indian upbringing to success and academic eminence in America.

Padma Desai grew up in the 1930s in the provincial world of Surat, India, where she had a sheltered and strict upbringing in a traditional Gujarati Anavil Brahmin family. Her academic brilliance won her a scholarship to Bombay University, where the first heady taste of freedom in the big...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262019973
• ISBN13: 9780262019972
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher