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Piya describes her father as the perfect immigrant: he did his best to leave his memories of India and Indian customs behind after he and Piya's mother moved to Seattle when Piya was a baby. The one Indian thing he held onto was his gamchha, a cotton cleaning cloth. Piya's parents had a strained relationship and forced her to carry messages between them.
Piya's Father Quotes in The Hungry Tide
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How do you lose a word? Does it vanish into your memory like an old toy in a chest, and lie hidden in the cobwebs and dust, waiting to be cleaned out or rediscovered?
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Piya's Father Quotes in The Hungry Tide
The The Hungry Tide quotes below are all either spoken by Piya's Father or refer to Piya's Father. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 1: Words
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How do you lose a word? Does it vanish into your memory like an old toy in a chest, and lie hidden in the cobwebs and dust, waiting to be cleaned out or rediscovered?
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