Miss Timmins' School for Girls: A Novel

by Nayana Currimbhoy

Book, 2011

Publication

Harper Perennial (2011), Edition: First Paperback Edition, 496 pages

Awards

ALA Over the Rainbow Book List (Selection — Mystery — 2012)

Content and Summary Info

Bisexual Content: A main character (cisgender woman) has/has had romantic and/or sexual relationships with people of more than one gender.

Intersecting Marginalized Identities: Several characters, including the main bisexual character, are Asian, Indian.

Publisher's Summary: In 1974, three weeks before her twenty-first birthday, Charulata Apte arrives at Miss Timmins' School for Girls in Panchgani. Shy, sheltered, and running from a scandal that disgraced her Brahmin family, Charu finds herself teaching Shakespeare to rich Indian girls in a boarding school still run like an outpost of the British Empire. In this small, foreign universe, Charu is drawn to the charismatic teacher Moira Prince, who introduces her to pot-smoking hippies, rock ‘n' roll, and freedoms she never knew existed.

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