Mahala - Hardcover
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by Carol Marques Barrios (Author)
Mahala was born a maverick.
Adopted by her mother's best friend and raised next door to her biological siblings, she grows up inside two families of Indian descent, in a colonial Caribbean society with a plan for her already written: leave school, marry well, run a household, arrange her own daughters' weddings one day. She is thirteen when four parents choose her husband. She refuses him, publicly and disastrously, in a way her family's reputation will not quickly recover from. At twenty-one she leaves St. Vincent for New York with a suitcase and no one's permission, and finds work at a sewing machine in the garment district. What she builds there, on a seamstress's wages and her own nerve, is a life of her own choosing, and a reckoning, years later, with the mother who gave her away. Based on the true life of the author's grandmother, Mahala is a family saga about two mothers, one daughter, and where women get their nerve. Readers of Lisa Wingate, Susan Meissner, and Charmaine Wilkerson's Black Cake will love it.Author Biography
Carol Marques Barrios is a graduate of the University of Connecticut, where she earned both her Bachelor of Science in marketing and Master of Business Administration. She lives with her husband and three daughters in Fairfield, Connecticut. Mahala is her first novel.
Number of Pages: 240
Dimensions: 0.95 x 9.14 x 6.07 IN
Publication Date: April 07, 2026
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