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The atlas of reds and blues

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'A powerfully written novel' Nikesh Shukla, Guardian'It takes place in a morning; it covers a lifetime'Booklist starred reviewThe 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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Product Details
Fleet
0708899323 / 9780708899328
Hardback
813.6
06/06/2019
United Kingdom
English
General
258 pages
23 cm
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