{"product_id":"stay-daughter-by-yasmin-azad-9781800751392","title":"Stay, Daughter","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWe did not stay in our houses. Not in the way our grandmothers had, or our mothers. We went out a little more and veiled ourselves a little less. Some of us longed for more learning and dreamed about leaving home to get it. The elders shook their heads and cautioned: too much education could ruin a girl's future.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo be a Muslim girl in the Sri Lanka of the 50s and 60s was to have to stay inside once you hit puberty; where even a glimpse of flesh was forbidden; and where things were done the way they'd always been done.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut Yasmin Azad's family is full of love, humour and larger-than-life characters, despite the strictures half of them were under. And almost despite himself, Yasmin's father allows her an education – an education that would open the whole world to her, even as it risked closing her off from those she was closest to.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn extraordinary portrait of a time and a community in the midst of profound change, \u003cem\u003eStay, Daughter\u003c\/em\u003e vividly evokes a now-vanished world, but its central clash – that of tradition and modernity – is one that will always be with us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46845825188076,"sku":"9781800751392","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/3614013482829.jpg?v=1758897385","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/stay-daughter-by-yasmin-azad-9781800751392","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}