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Title	:	Keeping Corner
Author	:	Kashmira Sheth
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	October 30th 2007 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Cultural. India. Fiction

Keeping Corner Hardcover | Pages: 288 pages

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Pretty as a peacock, twelve-year-old Leela has been spoiled all her life. She doesn't care for school and barely marks the growing unrest between the British colonists and her own countrymen. Why should she? Her future has been planned since her engagement at two and marriage at nine.

Leela's whole life changes, though, when her husband dies. She's now expected to behave like a proper widow: shaving her head and trading her jewel-toned saris for rough, earth-colored ones. Leela is considered unlucky now, and will have to stay confined to her house for a year—keep corner—in preparation for a life of mourning a boy she barely knew.

When her schoolteacher hears of her fate, she offers Leela lessons at home. For the first time, despite her confinement, Leela opens her eyes to the changing world around her. India is suffering from a severe drought, and farmers are unable to pay taxes to the British. She learns about a new leader of the people, a man named Gandhi, who starts a political movement and practices satyagraha—non-violent protest against the colonists as well as the caste system. The quiet strength of satyagraha may liberate her country. Could she use the same path to liberate herself?

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Original Title:	Keeping Corner
ISBN:	0786838590 (ISBN13: 9780786838592)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (2010), Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature for Children and Young Adult Honor (2007)

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I picked this book up looking for a glimpse into the Indian caste system. It was in the YA section of my library which I believe is incorrect. If this is a YA book, it is a young YA book as it reads more like an older child's book. However, none of that really matters because it was an excellent choice for my first learn-about-the-caste-system book. There is an nice look at the Brahmin caste. The story starts with Leela as a pre-teen engaged to be married to Ramanlal a boy she likes very much. A

I was not a huge fan of this book. It told a lot about Indian culture, but it was very slow. There were parts that were definitely stretched out longer than they needed to be. I think that new points of the story line should have been introduced earlier than they were. I did learn a lot about small villages in India, and what it is like to be a young widow. It is interesting to think there are young girls going through this in the present day world. Overall, I was not a fan of this book, and I

Keeping Corner is the story of a young girl in India who is betrothed at age 2, married at age 9, and before she goes to live with her husband (after her "anu") her husband is killed by a snake bite and she becomes a 12 year old widow. Widows in her caste are never allowed to marry again and are forced to live in the shadows of society. It is based on the life of the author's aunt and takes place in 1918. Keeping Corner is the ritual where a widow does not leave her home for a year after her

I picked this book up looking for a glimpse into the Indian caste system. It was in the YA section of my library which I believe is incorrect. If this is a YA book, it is a young YA book as it reads more like an older child's book. However, none of that really matters because it was an excellent choice for my first learn-about-the-caste-system book. There is an nice look at the Brahmin caste. The story starts with Leela as a pre-teen engaged to be married to Ramanlal a boy she likes very much. A

Leela struggles to find her place given the expectations of Indian society based on her caste as a Brahmin during her year of "keeping corner" after being widowed at a young age. Education becomes a means for her to find purpose in her life. As she reads about Gandhi in the newspaper and the writings of Narmad, her ideas of what's possible for her life change.Contains some great mentions about writing a journal and poetry. Also, an interesting part where Leela teaches the wife of a servant how

This book was very well written and amazingly pure. Leela a girl who was engaged when she was two, married when she was nine and widowed when she was thirteen, is a very brave girl who has lots of courage. Leela is forced to shave her head and give up all her pretty jewellery and clothes and keep away in a corner for a year. She is treated very badly, and when her principle from her old school comes and offers to educate her, her mother and father accept. She learns about how Gandhi is doing

I picked up this book because I read about Gandhi in a book a couple of months ago and I really wanted to read more about his influence on India. This book is a beautifully written piece of historical fiction children's literature, and I would recommend it to people wanting to learn about Gandhi and feminism in India as well as anyone who is just looking for a good story with a strong female protagonist.