As the world witnesses the war and conflicts in the name of unkind stringencies of national borders and ethno-religious identities, a professor of literature, Jonathan Gil Harris, reimagines the past of cultural confluence in his gripping memoir about his mother, The Girl from Fergana: Secrets of My Mother’s Chinese Tea Chest. Acknowledging personal loss and historical trauma, the memoir brings together two different stories – one about the travails of a Jewish girl, Stella, and another about the cosmopolitan past of the Silk Road. However, Harris brilliantly coalesces these two stories into a compelling narrative that bolsters the idea of...
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