New Delhi, Nov. 29 -- The work of memoir is to move from the personal to the particular, to make sense of anecdotes and experiences in a way that makes sense of the world.Nusrat Jafri's This Land We Call Home attempts this not with her life alone but with the collective story of her family, going through transformations of faith, caste and class. In her telling, she takes in wide swathes of India's history, from the late 1800s to 2019. But where she achieves resonance is in moments of intimate observation. Love is at the heart of the book: the author's love for the people we encounter, and the 'land' they create for her. The image comes up early in the writing, from the title onward, tying the stories together. "I come to realize that in ...