# Stay, Daughter

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- Authors: [Yasmin Azad](https://www.bookquiver.com/yasmin-azad)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2023-04-06
- Genres: Biography: general, Reportage, journalism or collected columns

## Description

We did not stay in our houses. Not in the way our grandmothers had, or our mothers. We went out a little more and veiled ourselves a little less. Some of us longed for more learning and dreamed about leaving home to get it. The elders shook their heads and cautioned: too much education could ruin a girl’s future. To be a Muslim girl in the Sri Lanka of the 50s and 60s was to have to stay inside once you hit puberty; where even a glimpse of flesh was forbidden; and where things were done the way they’d always been done. But Yasmin Azad’s family is full of love, humour and larger-than-life characters, despite the strictures half of them were under. And almost despite himself, Yasmin’s father allows her an education – an education that would open the whole world to her, even as it risked closing her off from those she was closest to. An extraordinary portrait of a time and a community in the midst of profound change, Stay, Daughter vividly evokes a now-vanished world, but its central clash – that of tradition and modernity – is one that will always be with us.

## Editions

### Stay, Daughter

- Publisher: Swift Press
- ISBN: 978-18-0075-139-2
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2023-04-06
- Language: en_US