{"id":3722,"date":"2003-09-26T13:27:48","date_gmt":"2003-09-26T17:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=3722"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:49:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:49:19","slug":"the-rice-mother-by-rani-manicka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-rice-mother-by-rani-manicka\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka [in AsianWeek]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2003\/09\/Rice-Mother.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-31801\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2003\/09\/Rice-Mother.jpg\" alt=\"Rice Mother\" width=\"313\" height=\"475\" \/><\/a>In another British import of a debut novel, Manicka draws from her own history to create a family saga of four generations and 70 years. At the family\u2019s core is its matriarch, Lakshmi, who is married off at age 14 and moves with her much older husband from Ceylon to Malaysia, where she bears six children by the age of 19. Instead of the wealthy, privileged life she is promised, she must struggle to raise her children and keep her family together.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/asian-week-2003-09-26-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, September 26, 2003<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2003<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/rice-mother.jpg\" alt=\"Rice Mother\" title=\"Rice Mother\" width=\"127\" height=\"193\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3723\" \/>In another British import of a debut novel, Manicka draws from her own history to create a family saga of four generations and 70 years. At the family\u2019s core is its matriarch, Lakshmi, who is married off at age 14 and moves with her much older husband from Ceylon to Malaysia, where she bears six children by the age of 19. Instead of the wealthy, privileged life she is promised, she must struggle to raise her children and keep her family together.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/asian-week-2003-09-26-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, September 26, 2003<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2003<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,436,6535,17,136,471],"tags":[3598,6608,22,341,58,10,51,25,129,39,4407,4408,45],"class_list":["post-3722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-fiction","category-malaysian","category-repost","category-south-asian","category-southeast-asian","category-sri-lankan","tag-asianweek","tag-bookdragon","tag-civil-rights","tag-colonialism","tag-coming-of-age","tag-family","tag-identity","tag-immigration","tag-mother-daughter-relationship","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-rani-manicka","tag-rice-mother","tag-war"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-rice-mother-by-rani-manicka\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In another British import of a debut novel, Manicka draws from her own history to create a family saga of four generations and 70 years. 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