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Farida, all of sixteen, has recently taken over her father's tailoring business and has been working for two English memsahibs in their home for intricate embroidery work on a few pieces. She is extremely talented, and Jenny and Mary are quite impressed. In fact, they're considering hiring her for a much larger order for their boutique back home. Really, Farida couldn't have asked for better employers. The only thing that seems to be bothering Farida, however, is Mickey, Jenny's teenage daughter, whose blouse she's currently working on. She dresses funny, looks funnyalmost like a boyand everyone, even the cook, has asked her to stay away from Mickey. But all Mickey wants is to have Farida work in her roomaway from the heat in the verandah and maybe even have her food with the rest of them. In Mickey's opinion, that's the least they could do for the prices they are paying Farida! It is strange how issues of race and bias are sometimes so ingrained in us that even as victims we don't realize something that is so obvious to someone else. Originally written for an anthology of short fiction for teenagers, Beads is a powerful story about the voices that often go unheard in the discourse

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Author

Manjula Padmanabhan

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9789387625617

Category

work of fiction