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"When her grandmother comes off the airplane in Houston from Pakistan, Mahnoor knows that having Dadi move in is going to disrupt everything about her life. She doesn't have time to be Dadi's unofficial babysitter-her journalism teacher has announced that their big assignment will be to film a documentary, which feels more like storytelling than what Maha would call "journalism." As Dadi starts to settle into life in Houston and Maha scrambles for...
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From Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands - in the panoramas Gauguin saw and portrayed - to the American museums of frenetic and hyper-modern metropolises where his greatest masterpieces are now preserved: New York - Metropolitan Museum of Art, Chicago - Art Institute, Washington - National Gallery of Art, Boston - Museum of Fine Arts. Marked by rebellion and other worlds' craving, he died of syphilis - abandoned by everyone in the remote village of Hiva...