Love the Dark Days

This frank, fearless and multi-layered debut centres on a privileged but dysfunctional Indian family, with themes of empire, migration, race, and gender. The Victorian India elephant in the room in Ira Mathur's silk-swathed memoir Love The Dark Days is in chains. By the time calypso replaces the Raj in post-colonial Trinidad, the chains are off three generations of daughters and mothers in a family in their New World exile. But they are still stuck in place and enduring insecurity and threats, seen and unseen. Set in India, England, Trinidad and a weekend in St Lucia, with Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott Love the Dark Days (Peepal Tree Press) follows the story of a girl, Poppet, of mixed middle-class Hindu and Elite Muslim parentage from post-independent India to her family's migration to post-colonial Trinidad. Profoundly raw, unflinching, layered, but not without threads of humour and perceived absurdity, Love the Dark Days reassembles the story of a disintegrating Empire.

Author: Ira Mathur
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
Published: 09/01/2022
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781845235352
ISBN10: 1845235355
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional | General
- Family & Relationships | Dysfunctional Families

About the Author
Ira Mathur is an Indian-born journalist and broadcaster, long resident in Trinidad. She has written over eight hundred columns on politics, economics, social, health and developmental issues, locally, regionally, and internationally.