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On The Blog/// It's raining reviews on the blog. The reviews for #apeopleshistoryofheaven by #mathangisubramanian and #pilgrimage by #irasingh are up on the blog 🌿 Link in bio 💟 . . . #bookreview #bookblog #bookblogger #bookishfeatures #indianbooks #indianwriting #literaryfiction #literaturelover #literature #fiction #readers #femmemarch #womenshistorymonth #womenwhoread #newontheblog #beautifulbooks (at West Bengal) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMjfFcrJ9N6/?igshid=1it95zrwfczqu

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“Love isn’t running away to save yourself,” Joy says. “Love is staying together to survive.” ⚜️ I feel incredibly privileged to be part of the blog tour for A People’s History of Heaven. Thank you @algonquinbooks for including me. And thank you, @mathangiwrites for writing this beautiful book. This book weaves a rich tapestry of interconnected lives. The prose is so lovely, it made the book impossible to put down. Heaven exists because of these women, unwilling to to bend to the world and be anything other than themselves. This book was an absolute treat. I thought long and hard about what the right lipstick would be and settled on @besamecosmetics Red Velvet. This is a red of hope, of indomitable girls, of endless, impossible rage. This is the red you take into the night, to see the butterflies, to face the bulldozers. The perfect red for the people of Heaven. BLURB: A pre-teen graffiti artist. A transgender Christian convert. A blind girl born to an orphan stricken by pregnancy loss. A queer daughter of a hijabi union leader. These girls and women make up a small part of Heaven – eking out a modest existence from the scraps of the surrounding city, fiercely driven to protect themselves and each other from outside threats: those who cannot accept these women for being their true selves – queer, or transgender, or poor, or visually impaired. Subramanian peels back the layers of these interconnected stories with a tenderness that feels poignantly at odds with their daily reality: the silent, patient dedication with which the girls construct a barrier around their classroom, so they can focus on their learning, unmolested by rats. A group of children who collect bags of fragrant frangipani flowers for a poor young girl’s offering, so the gods will grant her the privilege of going to school. The daring and determination of a line of women and children facing down an approaching bulldozer, unwilling to step aside to allow for the destruction of their homes, their lives. #algonquin #algonquinbooks #booktour #apeopleshistoryofheaven #mathangisubramanian #literaryfiction #bookstagram #bookreview #bookdragon #besamecosmetics #booklove #beautyblogger #bookblogger https://www.instagram.com/p/B7WzX8QABRu/?igshid=1lxum5qdwmt0j