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One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
- Essays
- Narrated by: Scaachi Koul
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Essays
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Publisher's Summary
For listeners of Mindy Kaling, Jenny Lawson, and Roxane Gay, a debut collection of fierce and funny essays about growing up the daughter of Indian immigrants in Canada, "a land of ice and casual racism", by the irreverent, hilarious cultural observer and incomparable rising star Scaachi Koul.
In One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, Scaachi deploys her razor-sharp humour to share her fears, outrages, and mortifying experiences as an outsider growing up in Canada. Her subjects range from shaving her knuckles in grade school, to a shopping trip gone horribly awry, to dealing with Internet trolls, to feeling out of place at an Indian wedding (as an Indian woman), to parsing the trajectory of fears and anxieties that pressed upon her immigrant parents and bled down a generation. Alongside these personal stories are pointed observations about life as a woman of color, where every aspect of her appearance is open for critique, derision, or outright scorn. Where strict gender rules bind in both Western and Indian cultures, forcing her to confront questions about gender dynamics, racial tensions, ethnic stereotypes and her father's creeping mortality - all as she tries to find her feet in the world.
With a clear eye and biting wit, Scaachi Koul explores the absurdity of a life steeped in misery. And through these intimate, wise, and laugh-out-loud funny dispatches, a portrait of a bright new literary voice emerges.
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- Sundip
- 2020-08-28
Enjoyable listen
I really enjoyed listening to this audiobook. The stories shared definitely resonate with my own Indian (punjabi) heritage and experiences.
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- NandiniD
- 2020-08-15
Relatable
As an Indo Caribbean Canadian woman I found this book highly relatable. I found myself laughing out loud more than a few times. So nice to have the feeling of shared experience. I only wish the narration was more modulated. I found the narration somewhat monotone in contrast to the story being told that to me begged much more animation and ‘personality’.
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- aurelie
- 2019-09-16
I feel a bit robbed
I selected this book after reading the cover weeks ago at a book store. The synopsis was « A collection of essays about growing up the daughter of Indian immigrants in Canada, "a land of ice and casual racism," by the cultural observer, Scaachi Koul. »
I have read a lot of Scaachi’s Buzzfeed articles and I like her writing in general.
I was interested to hear her perspective as I am an immigrant from Europe and I have had difficulties integrating in Canada.
Besides some pretty funny parts and a few pages about her childhood this book was kind of all over the place. I loved loved loved the part when she goes back to India and also feels like an outsider.
But honestly her university stories I don’t really care. We all got too drunk at 20, that’s not worth a book in my opinion.
Same as her twitter bullying or whatever. Do what I do, don’t have a twitter account.
I thought I was getting another perspective about the difficulties of making a life in Canada and most of the book ended up being the rant of someone who thinks their life is hilarious and super interesting. But it’s not really....