Amma National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Autobiography (2019) What does it take to

What does it take to be the queen of a kingdom when you’re only seventeen

just after her twenty-first birthday

A well-known art historian and critic describes and interprets the art and ideas of the revolutionary known as Romanticism from the late 1790s until the middle of the nineteenth century

There's just one catch: Maia is one of twelve tailors vying for the job

Amma National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Autobiography (2019) What does it take toPerumal Murugans tender yet truthful essays capture the life of a strong, independent and extraordinary woman: his mother. She raised her children with the income from just a few acres of land that she managed on her own, tending to the cattle and crops with maternal concern, all the while minding her unruly husband. Every obligation met, all accounts squared up, each meal cooked to satiate the tongue and heartAmma never rested, not even when