You Bring the Distant Near
“Five narrators represent the alternating voices of three generations of women from South Asia. A chime separates different characters, settings, situations, and time periods beginning in the 1970s, when two sisters immigrate to America…Later, different narrators portray Tara and Sonia’s daughters, who also struggle to understand their identities, their heritage, and their grandmother, Ranee, who is transformed by the 9/11 tragedy.”
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A 2017 School Library Journal Best Book in Audio
A 2018 Audie Award Finalist for Best Young Adult Narration
Nominated for the National Book Award
Publishers Weekly Best Book
A Boston Globe Best Books of the Year selection
A New York Public Library Recommended Book for Young Readers
A Shelf Awareness Best Books of the Year selection
From a grandmother worried that her children are losing their Indian identity to a daughter wrapped up in a forbidden biracial love affair to a granddaughter social-activist fighting to preserve Bengali tigers, Perkins weaves together the threads of a family growing into an American identity.
Here is a sweeping story of five women at once intimately relatable and yet entirely new.
Full Cast:
Sneha Mathan, as Narrator
Shivali Bhammer, as Sonia
Priya Ayyar, as Tara
N’Jameh Camara, as Chantal
Zehra Jane Naqvi, as Anna
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