New Book Announcement: “Wild Boar in the Cane Field” by Anniqua Rana

Wild Boar in the Cane Field: A Novel, Anniqua Rana (She Writes Press, September 2019)
Wild Boar in the Cane Field: A Novel, Anniqua Rana (She Writes Press, September 2019)

Wild Boar in the Cane field introduces a world of magic realism, in which a fly-covered baby girl, Tara, is found and raised by two mothers in a community rife with rituals and superstition. As she grows, Tara pursues acceptance at all costs. Saffiya, her adoptive mother, and Bhaggan, Saffiya’s maidservant, are victims of the men in their community, and the two women, in turn, struggle and live short but complicated lives. The only way for the villagers to find solace is through the rituals of ancient belief systems.

Tara lives in a village that could be any village in South Asia, and she dies, like many young women in the area, during childbirth. Her short life is dedicated to her efforts to find happiness despite the fact that she has no hope of going to school or making any life choices in the feudal, patriarchal world in which she finds herself.

 

Wild Boar in the Cane Field by Anniqua Rana
She Writes Press, September 2019 (ISBN 9781631526688)