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Cheryl Snell

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Poetry, Literature & Fiction, Poetry

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Reviews of my books: http://cherylsnell.blogspot.com
When I married into a Hindu Brahmin family, I began to write seriously as a way to penetrate the protocol of another culture. My novels, Shiva's Arms and Rescuing Ranu explore South Indian life, particularly the stage referred to as samsara.The term haunted me for awhile— samsara--the sibilance of a word that can connote drowning. I had been reading Indian writers—Lahiri, Desai, Divakaruni-- and was drawn to the stories of immigrant families thrashing in their domestic seas. The plight of characters who straddle two continents, the lives they make here, and the families they leave behind, raised the question: when one belongs to two cultures, which part of a divided self goes, and what sta ...more

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Average rating: 4.32 · 102 ratings · 32 reviews · 41 distinct works
Shiva's Arms
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Multiverse
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4.75 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2008
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Memento Mori
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Rescuing Ranu
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Prisoner's Dilemma
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Flower Half Blown
4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions
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Samsara
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2007
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Variations on a Theme with ...
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions
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Murmuration
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2008
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Epithalamion
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2004
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“For this brief moment, Amma stood alone beneath the planets. She lifted one hand to cradle the sinking sun. When she raised the other, she tossed up the moon.”
― Cheryl Snell, Bombay Trilogy
tags: embracing-the-universe, literary, mother, novel, south-indian
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