Speedpost (book)

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Speedpost
Author Shobha De
Country India
Language English
Genre(s) Essay
Publisher Viking Books
Publication date 1999


Speedpost is a book written in 1999 by Shobha De.

The book is a series of letters to her six children, either grown, or nearly so. The subjects that she approaches through the medium of letters include: growing pains and adolescent anxieties about love, sex and friendship; religion and God; the challenge of being a responsible parent, death, remembrance and family traditions, the place of career, sex and of values in the lives of her children.