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Minelle mahtani biography of william hill
Minelle Mahtani finds her voice in engaging memoir May It Have a Happy Ending
On many occasions, I have felt that book reviews reveal as much about the reviewer as the author. With that in mind, I’m not going to write an extensive evaluation of Minelle Mahtani’s May It Have a Happy Ending: A Memoir of Finding My Voice as My Mother Lost Hers.
Mahtani, the head of Canadian Studies at the University of British Columbia, doesn’t need to have her story filtered through the eyes of a white male journalist whose lived experiences differ so markedly from hers.
I’ll just say this: her book is revelatory, candid, deeply personal, and well-written.
It’s not a standard memoir told in chronological order. Rather, Mahtani delivers a non-linear series of vignettes from her life, often redolent with emotion and full of surprises. Anyone born into a mixed-race household will probably identify with Mahtani’s recollections of growing up with a Sindhi Hindu father and a Muslim mother of Iranian a