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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about support, Asian, IndianTrinidadian with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'Valmiki's Daughter'
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conversations.value: a plot for a book titled Valmiki's Daughter about support, Asian, IndianTrinidadian with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
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conversations.value: Valmiki's Daughter: Set in modern Trinidad, Valmiki's Daughter is centered around the Krishnu family, which consists of Valmiki, Viveka, Vashti, and Devika.\nThe husband, Valmiki, is a closeted gay doctor in an unaccepting environment.\nHe learns about this part of his identity when, while attending school in England, he becomes involved in a relationship with an upper classmate named Tony.\nHowever, his guilt about his own sexuality persuades him to pursue a life of marrying Devika rather than staying with Tony whom he truly loves.\nHowever, despite his discomfort with his homosexuality, he still goes on hunting trips to liaise with his lover, Saul.\nAfter each trip, he brings birds back to his family as a gift.\nThroughout the book, Mootoo illustrates that Valmiki's relationship with his wife is much more platonic than his sexual relations with Saul.\nValmiki is not willing to come out because he is a well-respected doctor amongst his peers, and it would be a humiliating experience that would cost him his reputation.\nValmiki's elder daughter, Viveka, is a closeted lesbian.\nShe undergoes a similar high school experience as her dad, struggling with her own sexual orientation and identity.\nAfter seeing a fellow student named Merle Bedi was outcast from her family because of her sexuality, Viveka realizes how unaccepting the people around her are of her sexuality.\nIn order to avoid ending up in a similar situation, Viveka deliberately makes decisions that will steer her in a different direction.\nThis constant pressure prevents Viveka from ever becoming completely comfortable with her lesbian identity.\nDespite being homosexual himself, Valmiki is outwardly opposed to the idea of his daughters being lesbian.\nHe feels very firmly that she should not have to go through the same struggle that he underwent as a child.\nThis extreme caution leads him to deny her any participation in a women-only sports club for fear that she will develop lesbian tendencies.\nBoth Valmiki and his wife Devika are more comfortable with the identity of their younger daughter Vashti.\nUnlike her older sister, Vashti conforms to most of the female gender stereotypes.\nViveka sees her sister as an ongoing pressure to conform to cultural ideals.\nIn what seems to be a separate plot at the start, a French woman named Anick Prakash moves away from her parents in France to marry a Trinidadian man named Nayan.\nHer parents are quite unhappy with this decision due to their bias against Trinidadian culture and people.\nThe disagreement causes tension in the family.\nAfter growing up in France, Anick has great difficulty adapting to the extreme cultural differences.\nThe two plots then intertwine when Anick, while living in Trinidad, meets and quickly befriends Viveka.\nThey bond over common experiences such tension with parents, and soon fall in love.\nDespite her affair with Viveka, Anick is still married to Nayan and becomes pregnant as a result.\nFeeling alienated and unable to adapt to Trinidadian culture, Anick proposes to Viveka that they run away together.\nTo Anick's dismay, Viveka refuses because she cannot fully accept her identity as a lesbian.\nFalling into the same pattern as her father, Viveka succumbs to the social pressure and ends up marrying a man named Trevor.\nMuch like Valmiki, she would rather lie about her sexual identity and marry a man, than have to come out as gay in front of a whole community simply to live with the woman she truly loves.