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The Girl From Foreign: A Search For Shipwrecked Ancestors, Forgotten Histories, And A Sense Of Home (2008)

by Sadia Shepard(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

159420151X (ISBN13: 9781594201516)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Penguin Press HC, The

review 1: This memoir covers a young woman's trip to India to understand her grandmother's life and choices. The grandmother was born Jewish in India as part of the Bene Israel community. She married a Muslim man and raised her children Muslim. The granddaughter returns to India and Pakistan to visit the communities of her grandmother's pastThe book gives insight into a little-know Jewish community.
review 2: While this is a three star, I do recommend this book. It is a moving personal memoir that is particularly insightful today. Sadia has inherited three religions--Judaism, Islam and Christianity. It is Judaism she knows the least about and it is that heritage that she is looking to uncover as she goes back to India to learn about her Indian Jewish ancestors. Sadia... more does her research and while it is personal, there is not a whole lot revealed about the Jewish Indian community and she does not make any dramatic connection as she fails to do with her Islamic or Christian roots. While it is edifying to hear her father's message that the these three religions spring from the same roots and in the end speak to the same good, it just didn't make for intense fiction. None the less, I do recommend it as Sadia's coming to grips with her multicultural background is interesting and the book reveals much about life in her grandmother's India and her family's home in Pakistan. less

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