Arabian queens, Bangladeshi mothers and women's tales
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Is There a Difference Between Immigrants and Bangladeshis?
Abdul: I grew up listening to stories about the war from my family. It wasn't just that I heard the stories, it was almost as if that was pretty much all we talked about. The entire generation of their peers had grown up in the shadow of this extraordinary moment in history. And so when I was thinking about becoming a novelist, it was really the only story I wanted to tell. But after I published the book, many people from the Bangladesh diaspora told me that they had never spoken to their families about them. There was this huge silence around the war. In my experience having been born in Bangladesh and not having immigrated, it was so much in the
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