Ripenings Author|Nawal Nader-French It's time to shatter the

It's time to shatter the myth

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a happy fusion of the cool elegance of western culture with the spectacle and pageantry of the Hindu experience

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Ripenings Author|Nawal Nader-French It's time to shatter thePart American history, part poetic memoir, part multifaceted and lyrical study of tender human life, Jacqueline Kudler's Ripenings is a trajectory, a richly detailed arco iris of ancestors, intimate family, friends, lifelong loves, inevitable loss. "Revelation begins in attention," the author writes, and whether that attention manifests here in paeans to New York, to life in Northern California's landscape, or to the people who have accompanied her