The Tiger Ladies: A Memoir of Kashmir by Sudha Koul [in AsianWeek]
29 Aug, by in Adult Readers, Indian, Indian African, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American
Koul captures the lives of four generations of women in her native Kashmir, a tiny country caught between India and Pakistan since the Partition of 1947, the year of her birth. She weaves a...
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