But now that I've been published, a whole world has opened up for me." (Graeber) For many years, though, she says, "I was told that Pakistan was too remote in time and place for Americans or the British to identify with"(Hower 299). She says, "Whenever there was a bridge game, I'd sneak off and write. The responsibilities of a family led her to conceal her literary prowess. At nineteen, Sidhwa had married and soon after gave birth to the first of her three children. She then went on to receive a BA from Kinnaird College for Women in Lahore. Growing up with polio, she was educated at home until age 15, reading extensively. Born on Augin Karachi, in what is now Pakistan, and migrating shortly thereafter to Lahore, Bapsi Sidhwa witnessed the bloody Partition of the Indian Subcontinent as a young child in 1947. She has produced four novels in English that reflect her personal experience of the Indian subcontinent's Partition, abuse against women, immigration to the US, and membership in the Parsi/Zoroastrian community. Bapsi Sidhwa is Pakistan's leading diasporic writer.
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