Overview
Based on her popular Instagram @Hatecopy and her experience in a South Asian immigrant family, artist Maria Qamar has created a humorous, illustrated ""survival guide"" to deal with overbearing ""Aunties,"" whether they're family members, annoying neighbors, or just some random ladies throwing black magic your way. We've all experienced interference from our Aunties--they are at family parties and friendly get-togethers, finding ways to make your life difficult, trying to get you to marry their sons, and telling you to lose weight while simultaneously feeding you a second dinner--and it has stunted our social growth and embarrassed us in front of our friends and cool cousins for years. This tongue-in-cheek guide is full of advice designed to help you manage Aunty meddling and encourages you to pursue your passions--from someone who has been through it all. Qamar confesses to throwing sweatshirts over crop-tops to get out of the house without being questioned, hiding her boyfriend in a closet, and enduring overbearing parents endless pressuring her to become a doctor, lawyer, or engineer. Holding onto your cultural identity is tough. Always interfering Aunties make it even harder. But ultimately, Aunties keep our lives interesting. As an Aunty-survivor and a woman who has lived the cross-cultural experience, Qamar defied the advice of her aunties almost every step of the way, and she is here to remind you: Trust No Aunty.
Full Product Details
Author: Maria Qamar ,
Maria Qamar
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Imprint: Simon & Schuster
Dimensions:
Width: 14.70cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 18.50cm
Weight: 0.363kg
ISBN: 9781501154737
ISBN 10: 1501154737
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 01 August 2017
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Not available
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Reviews
Maria Qamar s art is gorgeous and witty, with defiance seeping through the edges. Everything I want to be! I am a big fan. --<b>Mindy Kaling</b>
Everyone has an overbearing aunty! Qamar's first book is where memoir and comic book and brownness meet, with advice on how to handle pushy aunties as well as recipes and stories about dating and racism. Qamar also illustrated the book with her Lichtenstein-esque feisty Indian women reminding you to get married or call home or not to fall in love with another nikamma. --New York Maria Qamar's art is gorgeous and witty, with defiance seeping through the edges. Everything I want to be! I am a big fan. -- Mindy Kaling
Maria Qamar's art is gorgeous and witty, with defiance seeping through the edges. Everything I want to be! I am a big fan. --<b> Mindy Kaling</b>
Author Information
Maria Qamar, otherwise known as Hatecopy (@Hatecopy), is an artist living in Toronto. She was raised a first generation Canadian in a traditional South Asian home where a job in the arts was typically looked down upon as an ""unstable career path."" Soon after realizing there was no other option, she fought to pursue the arts anyway and started her Instagram account Hatecopy in February 2015, illustrating the hilarious insights of diaspora culture and the significance of aunties in Indian culture. Trust No Aunty is her first book.
