Mimi Correia Afonso Desai: 2 books
by Mimi Correia-Afonso Desai
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
From an upper-class, staunchly Indian-Catholic family in Portuguese India, Mimi Correia-Afonso Desai’s marriage to a Gujarati Hindu from Tanzania moved her in 1959 from one continent to another and from one culture to another entirely alien. Disowned by her family and faced with the vitriolic reaction...
by Mimi Correia-Afonso Desai
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
From an upper-class, staunchly Indian-Catholic family in Portuguese India, Mimi Correia-Afonso Desai’s memories of her childhood in Goa in the 1930s inspire this story of Licia Fontes de Almida. It is a little girl’s journey, losing and finding her way - determinedly in her own way – as she grows up despite a very Catholic childhood.