About
the Book
Title:
Are You There Krishna, It’s Me
Reshma. Or Rachel. Or Whatever.; Essays on Talking to Ghosts,
Accosting Celebrities, One-night Stands Gone Wrong, Sexism, Race, and
First-Generation Woes
Author:
Rachel Khona
Genre:
Memoir / Humor
Rachel
knew even as a young child that she wasn’t like the rest of her
Indian family. While her parents were plotting how she could make it
into med school with her mediocre grades in chemistry and biology,
she had other things on my mind.
Including
such gems as:
- Why can’t she go to the temple on her period?
- Why don’t her Indian cousins like her?
- Why was it OK to be sexualized at a beauty pageant but not for herself?
- How can she straddle two cultures while retaining her sense of self?
- Why are women considered sluts and men considered studs?
- Why do people keep asking her if she was born in India?
- Should she wax down there?
- Why does she have crazy eyes?
After
leaving home, Rachel got high in Amsterdam, met her pop singer idol
in a bathroom, argued with a ghost and got lost in the Pyrenees. But
that didn’t stop her from questioning while men still tell her to
smile. Are
You There Krishna, It’s Me Reshma. Or Rachel. Or Whatever.; Essays
on Talking to Ghosts, Accosting Celebrities, One-night Stands Gone
Wrong, Sexism, Race, and First-Generation Woes weaves
stories of Rachel’s life with observations on race, class, sex,
feminism and culture with humor and candor.
Author
Bio
Once
upon a time in an exotic land called New Jersey, Rachel used to dream
of one day playing tambourine in an all-girl rock band. That never
happened.
Instead
she became a writer. She has written for The
New York Times, The
Washington Post, Playboy,
Penthouse, Maxim,
and Cosmopolitan among others.
When
she’s not writing or designing, she is busy drinking wine and
singing off key, bike riding, pretending she’s friends with
Mindy Kaling and Amy Poehler, eating absurd amounts of cheese, or
listening to rock music at an appallingly loud volume. Sometimes all
at once.
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