Sadia Shepard--The Girl From Foreign

I picked this book up at the library and immediately was drawn into the world that Sadia spun. The story tells the real tale of her grandmother, who was born of the Bene Israel Jewish community in India, a community that I've heard some about in recent years. Unfortunately I didn't know a lot of information about the group or even what had become of them in more recent times. It was very interested to read about the conflict that Sadia felt, having all these different religious beliefs in one household. While it seemed at first, that Nana didn't really bring a lot of the Jewish faith into the household, as Sadia explored more and more throughout India, she realized that many of the things that her grandmother had done while she was a child were really Jewish traditions and not the traditions of her Muslim grandfather. I can only imagine the pain that Rachel Jacobs/Rahat Siddiqi felt trying to navigate the world through such different lenses. I wish that more of her secrets and world could have been shared before she'd died and I would have loved to hear how she felt about her religions and how she felt of the increasingly more religiousness of Pakistan since she left.