Ebook {Epub PDF} Mamaji: A Memoir by Elisheba Haqq

Elisheba Haqq’s Mamaji pushes against the boundaries of memoir; her text pulsating with a novel’s energy. Papaji, Mamaji, and their seven children move from India to the frozen wastes of Minnesota. Soon after their arrival Mamaji falls ill and tragically dies within months of her cancer diagnosis, when Haqq was only three years old.  · Mamaji by Elisheba Haqq, is a sometimes heartbreaking, but ultimately uplifting memoir about self-discovery and a child’s journey from babyhood to being an adult without the guiding influence of .  · Elisheba Haqq, the youngest of seven children has lost her mother, Mamaji to cancer. She is living with a cold and unfeeling stepmother and searching for answers. The small-town Minnesotans believe the family members are the "perfect immigrants." Nothing could Brand: Serving House Books.

Haqq offers an honest and atypical perspective in her memoir Mamaji. She's not the usual. Elisheba Haqq, the youngest of seven children has lost her mother, Mamaji to cancer. She is living with a cold and unfeeling stepmother and searching for answers. The small-town Minnesotans believe the family members are the "perfect immigrants.". Elisheba Haqq, author of the memoir Mamaji, will visit Greensboro's Central Library for an in-person meet and greet at 12 pm, Tuesday, October 19 at Central Library, N Church St. "Mamaji" is a Hindi term meaning "respected mother" and it's a reference to the author's own mother who was lost to cancer. Haqq offers an honest and atypical perspective in her memoir. Publication Date: N/A. Copyright Date: N/A.

She enjoys unplanned travel, black tea, and printed books. Elisheba lives in New Jersey with her family and can be found online @Elisheba Haqq on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Her memoir, Mamaji is available now at your local bookstore, Amazon, and BN. The Audible version will be available January Haqq offers an honest and atypical perspective in her memoir Mamaji. She’s not the usual Indian immigration success story. She doesn’t attend an Ivy League college, have a Bollywood-inspired wedding or become a neurosurgeon. Instead, with humor and introspection, she shares how she and her siblings contend with a manipulative stepmother. Elisheba Haqq’s debut novel, “Mamaji,” is an all-encompassing memoir that details the heartbreak and healing of a family that lost their mother at an early age. Only about a year after moving to Minnesota from Chandigarh, the mother, or Mamaji, contracted rare cancer and passed away within a year. Haqq was just three when this occurred.