The sun and her flowers

Rupi Kaur

Book - 2017

A transcendent journey about growth and healing, ancestry and honoring ones roots and expatriation, and rising up to find a home within yourself.

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Published
Kansas City, Missouri : Andrews McMeel Publishing [2017]
Language
English
Main Author
Rupi Kaur (author)
Item Description
"Illustrations and design by Rupi Kaur"--Title page verso.
Physical Description
248 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
ISBN
9781449486792
9781471165825
  • Wilting
  • Falling
  • Rooting
  • Rising
  • Blooming.
Review by School Library Journal Review

Kaur, author of the immensely popular Milk and Honey, writes and sketches in the same plain, honest, and shattering style about healing. Her fresh, poignant metaphor of a broken relationship as an abandoned construction site sets the stage for the structured volume, divided into sections ("wilting," "falling," "rooting," "rising," and "blooming"): "it isn't what we left behind/that breaks me/but what we could have built/had we stayed." Kaur then asks, "do you think flowers will grow here/when you and i are off/building something new/with someone else." The author frames several longer prose poems graphically as books within a book in which she digs into the root causes of her mistakes and her inspiration, such as her cultural upbringing to never speak up and the sacrifices of her mother, an East Indian immigrant, respectively. Kaur exudes a wisdom and reverence for life that she melds with the social justice ideals of feminism and equity. She speaks to teens' struggles to accept, to forgive, and to love with intensity and respect: "when i stopped searching for home within others and lifted the foundation of home within myself.there were no roots more intimate." VERDICT A must-buy for poetry collections.-Sara Lissa Paulson, City-As-School High School, New York City © Copyright 2018. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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