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The Atlas of Reds and Blues

Laskar, Devi
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group (Fleet)
Published: June 4, 2020
ISBN: 9780708899342
272 pages

£8.99

‘A powerfully written novel’Nikesh Shukla, Guardian

The Atlas of Reds and Blues opens with a woman lying bleeding on her driveway, shot by police. The woman has moved her family to the wealthy suburbs, but once there was is met with the same questions: Where are you from? No, where are you really from? The American-born daughter of Bengali immigrant parents, her truthful answer, here, is never enough. The morning that opens The Atlas of Red and Blues is the morning that the woman’s simmering anger breaks through. During a baseless and prejudice-driven police raid on her house, she finally refuses to be calm, complacent, polite. As she lies bleeding on her driveway, her life flashing before her eyes, she struggles to make sense of her past and decipher her present – how did she end up here?

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