Bird Milk and Mosquito Bones

Download or read book Bird Milk and Mosquito Bones written by Priyanka Mattoo and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2024-07-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Priyanka Mattoo was born into a wooden house in the Himalayas, as were most of her ancestors. In 1989, however, mounting violence in the region forced Mattoo’s community to flee. The home into which her family poured their dreams was reduced to a pile of rubble. Mattoo never moved back to her beloved Kashmir—because it no longer existed. She and her family just kept packing and unpacking and moving on. In forty years, Mattoo accumulated thirty-two different addresses, and she chronicles her nomadic existence with wit, wisdom, and an inimitable eye for light within the darkest moments.