A People's History of Heaven
Book Feature - A People's History of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian
Book Feature - A People's History of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian
HBL Note: This book sounds as beautiful as the cover looks. It is the story of a group of friends living in the slums hidden behind the glitz and glamour of glass high-rises in Bangalore, India’s fastest growing city. This book sounds heartwarming with the story of friendship, love and support….but also heartbreaking as they struggle to fight for the people and places they love. I imagine this is a book that will stick with you for a long time after you’ve turned the last page. Scroll down to read more about this book.
Book Feature - A People's History of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian
From the publisher: A politically driven graffiti artist. A transgender Christian convert. A blind girl who loves to dance. A queer daughter of a hijabi union leader. These are some of the young women who live in a Bangalore slum known as Heaven, young women whom readers will come to love in the moving, atmospheric, and deeply inspiring debut, A People's History of Heaven.
Welcome to Heaven, a thirty-year-old slum hidden between brand-new high-rise apartment buildings and technology incubators in contemporary Bangalore, one of India's fastest-growing cities. In Heaven, you will come to know a community of people living hand-to-mouth and constantly struggling against the city government who wants to bulldoze their homes and build yet more glass high-rises. These families, men and women, young and old, gladly support one another, sharing whatever they can.
A People's History of Heaven centers on five best friends, girls who go to school together, a diverse group who love and accept one another unconditionally, pulling one another through crises and providing emotional, physical, and financial support. Together they wage war on the bulldozers that would bury their homes, and, ultimately, on the city that does not care what happens to them.
This is a story about geography, history, and strength, about love and friendship, about fighting for the people and places we love--even if no one else knows they exist. Elegant, poetic, bursting with color, Mathangi Subramanian's novel is a moving and celebratory story of girls on the cusp of adulthood who find joy just in the basic act of living.
Book Feature - A People's History of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian
