Room to Fly is a unique journal―or ongoing memoir―by a woman who traces the elusive contours of cultural perceptions East and West, welcoming us into the intimate geography of individual lives. The book takes its shape and direction from a tenet of Japanese Sumi painting: If you depict a bird, give it space to fly. Padma Hejmadi explores the human spaces surrounding language, landscape, literacy and illiteracy, music, dance, legend, the cadence of ancient craft, and the ceaselessly unfolding layers of family relationships. Part autobiography, part lively meditation, Room to Fly represents a new genre with an old diction. Hejmadi's spare, luminous prose combines lyricism with humor and intellectual rigor, drawing us from Bombay to the Bahamas, from Japan to New England, the Greek Isles to New Mexico.

Room to Fly: A Transcultural Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Hejmadi, Padma

Arts & Literature

University of California Press

This is a new edition of Birthday Deathday & Other Stories by Padma Perera, first published by The Women's Press, England, 1985, with international reviews from the UK, USA, Europe, and the Commonwealth countries. Additional material now provides more oral history from the first four decades just before and after India's independence, 1940s-1980s. The story "Doctor Salaam" was included in Salman Rushdie's Mirrorwork, an anthology of the best Indian fiction in English during the fifty years after India's Independence.

The Schoolmaster: & Other Stories

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

Bauhan Publishing

Book by Weymouth, Fleur, Hejmadi, Padma

Fleur Weymouth Photographs

Arts & Photography

Weymouth, Fleur

Individual Artists

Abeel & Leet Pub

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