The Daughters of Rosebud

Finding peace after years of emotional trauma (2007, 1989 memories; small Midwestern town): Hypnotic, I devoured The Daughters of Rosebud. The emotional depth and gravity of the issues tackled exquisitely resonated with me. Thinking about why when my cultural, religious, and familial experiences are drastically different than those painfully made clear inside a Pakistani-American immigrant family’s story, it struck me how the appeal is far more universal than any specific American immigrant group or even American immigrants more broadly. That’s because Sonny Buttar probe’s mental health and psychology on a range of complex universal aspects of Selfhood: self-awareness, self-understanding, self-concept, self-confidence, and the like. Without a doubt, when you look through the lens of extreme cultural divides within the family at the center of the novel – the older generation’s beliefs crashing into an Americanized younger generation – the story and its trajectory is spectacularly…