Review of At Home in Two Worlds by Michelle Mendonca Bambawale
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Selma Carvalho
Oct 7, 2024, 6:19:45 AM10/7/24
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I encountered Maria Aurora Couto through her two earlier works. In Goa: A Daughter's Story, I marvelled at the grandeur of the life she described in the palatial houses of Salcette, with their colonial connections through the Portuguese language, music, food, and lifestyle. Filomena’s Journeys: A Portrait of a Marriage, a Family, and a Culture, was heartbreaking. She writes of her mother’s story with honesty, the unravelling of a once-grand Goan family, their love of music, their Indo-Portuguese lifestyle, and their eventual decline brought on by a lack of practical skills and alcohol addiction. Her mother, Filomena was strong, stoic, and suffered in silence. Couto found this book so difficult to write that she refers to herself in the third person.
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Selma Carvalho
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