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Marc Koralnik |
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ALL OF US IN OUR OWN LIVES
All of Us in Our Own Lives, which is told from the perspective of all four main characters, is ultimately about our interconnectedness as humans, and the ways in which strangers come to be related to one another.
Befogged by a stagnant career and passionless marriage, Ava Berrimann leaves her law firm on Bay Street, separates from her husband and moves to Nepal, from where she was adopted as a baby. There she hopes to launch a meaningful new career in international aid as the Director of the Women's Empowerment Program of a powerful multilateral donor agency. But the more she learns, the more gaps and irregularities she notices.
Her struggle to make sense of the aid world and her own emotional difficulties in forging a personal connection with Nepal are resolved through her encounters with the novel's three other protagonists: Indira Sharma, the Deputy Co-Director of an international NGO, and one of the few high-ranking Nepali women in the Kathmandu's aid world and a small village in central Nepal, Sapana Adhikari, a promising young woman, a dreamer and idealist and her brother Gyanu, who works as a chef in Dubai, and is home to settle his sister's future after their father's death.
All of Us in Our Own Lives, which is told from the perspective of all four main characters, is ultimately about our interconnectedness as humans and sometimes, as strangers.
MANJUSHREE THAPA is the author of fiction and nonfiction about her homeland Nepal. She has been a finalist in the Lettre Ulysses Award and translated the works of 49 Nepali writers into English. Her commentary and reportage have appeared in the New York Times, the London Review of Books, Globe and Mail and Walrus, and in the print media in South Asia. Thapa was a Fulbright fellow at the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Washington in Seattle. She grew up in Nepal, Canada and the United States and now lives in Toronto. Her website is www.manjushreethapa.com. Her last novel SEASONS OF FLIGHT was published in India by both Penguin and then by Aleph, and also by Albin Michel in France.
Her struggle to make sense of the aid world and her own emotional difficulties in forging a personal connection with Nepal are resolved through her encounters with the novel's three other protagonists: Indira Sharma, the Deputy Co-Director of an international NGO, and one of the few high-ranking Nepali women in the Kathmandu's aid world and a small village in central Nepal, Sapana Adhikari, a promising young woman, a dreamer and idealist and her brother Gyanu, who works as a chef in Dubai, and is home to settle his sister's future after their father's death.
All of Us in Our Own Lives, which is told from the perspective of all four main characters, is ultimately about our interconnectedness as humans and sometimes, as strangers.
MANJUSHREE THAPA is the author of fiction and nonfiction about her homeland Nepal. She has been a finalist in the Lettre Ulysses Award and translated the works of 49 Nepali writers into English. Her commentary and reportage have appeared in the New York Times, the London Review of Books, Globe and Mail and Walrus, and in the print media in South Asia. Thapa was a Fulbright fellow at the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Washington in Seattle. She grew up in Nepal, Canada and the United States and now lives in Toronto. Her website is www.manjushreethapa.com. Her last novel SEASONS OF FLIGHT was published in India by both Penguin and then by Aleph, and also by Albin Michel in France.
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