Middle schooler Ariel Goldberg's life changes when her big sister elopes following the 1967 Loving v. Importance: Nisha expresses her grief over her mother's loss by reflecting upon the things she is missing. Read more by Veera Hiranandani: A poignant, personal, and hopeful tale of India's partition, and of one girl's journey to find a new home in a divided country. She braids my hair and gives me cardamom milk when I'm sick. His instruction is cut short, however, when his teacher, Moishe the Beadle, is deported. Eliezer studies the Torah (the first five books of the Old Testament) and the Kabbalah (a doctrine of Jewish mysticism). All of a sudden, tensions between these various groups threatens her family's safety and Nisha points out how ridiculous all of it is, given that they had existed in peace until politicians' rhetoric helped change the world into what she sees as a much more complex world.ĭadi never kisses me. Night is narrated by Eliezer, a Jewish teenager who, when the memoir begins, lives in his hometown of Sighet, in Hungarian Transylvania. Importance: Nisha's confusion over the role which religion or ethnicity plays in peoples' loyalties is understandable, since, as she says, she has lived in Mirpur Khas all her life where Sikhs, Muslims, and Hindus had previously all lived side by side. But we all have lived together in this town for so long, I just never thought much about peoples' religions before.
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