The House of Fathepore

As a teenage girl, author Sofiya Bryant faced challenging times, and she chronicled those events in The House of Fathepore. Based on Bryants diary entries, this memoir captures her coming-of-age experience as a teenage Indian-American girl and tells how her American upbringing and lifestyle choices clashed with her parents traditional Indian cultural views. In this narrative, she recalls how the problem began when her parents prepared for her next rite of passage: marriage. She discusses how she