Balancing Act - Softcover

Meera Godbole Krishnamurthy

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ISBN 10: 818988459X ISBN 13: 9788189884598

Publisher: Zubaan/Penguin Books India, 2009

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What do you call a feminist who is a mother? A femimom? A mominist? Or just a confused woman balancing the many roles in her life: working professional, mother, wife, daughter... Meet Tara Mistri, stay-at-home mom and frustrated architect: a baker of biscuits and maker of bricks. Inspired by and in total awe of Louis Kahn's iconic Salk Institute in California, Tara hankers to replicate its clean lines and perfect symmetry in her own life. But with two small children to look after, her set squares and scales are used for scraping plasticine out of the carpet and her career looks like it may remain on the backburner forever. Then, one day, she is offered a job and finds herself on the horns of a dilemma. Goaded by her own personal demon a nagging Yakshi who just won t let her alone Tara s struggle to balance life and love, work and playdoh will have readers nodding in recognition, wincing in sympathy and laughing along with her. "A wise and wonderful insight into modern motherhood" --Farah Khan, director and choreographer

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About the Author:

Meera Godbole Krishnamurthy was born in Mumbai in 1968 and has lived in the Philippines, France, and many parts of the United States. She studied art and architecture at Oberlin College and Columbia University and received a Masters of Architecture from the University of Virginia in 1992. She has participated in writing workshops at Stanford, The University of Iowa Summer Festival, UC San Diego and the La Jolla Writers Conference. She was an Adjunct at the NewSchool of Architecture and Design in San Diego. An artist, she has exhibited and sold her work in California. She moved to India in 2006 and now lives in Mumbai. She is a visiting faculty with various architecture and writing programs. Balancing Act is her first novel. She is currently working on her next novel.

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