Audiobook, bilingual, east indian

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Description

The book is about an East Indian family's journey from Calcutta to Boston. The demo features a scene where the young, pregnant girl is brought to the maternity ward of a hospital.

Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Young Adult (18-35)

Accents

Indian (General)

Transcript

Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
she seated in a wheelchair and pushed through the shining, brightly lit corridors whisked into an elevator more spacious than her kitchen on the maternity floor, she's assigned to a bed by a window in a room at the end of the hall. She's asked to remove her machida bad silk sari in favor off a flowered cotton gown that, to her mild embarrassment, only reaches her knees. A nurse offers to fold up the sorry but exasperated by the sixth slippery yards ends up stuffing the material into Oshima's slate blue suitcase. Her obstetrician, Dr Ashleigh Gaunt Lee, handsome in a Lord Mountbatten sort of way with fine sand colored hair swept back from his temples, arrives to examine her progress. The baby's head is in the proper position has already begun. It's descent she stole that she's in early labor, three centimeters dilated, beginning to efface. What does it mean? Dilated? She asks, and Dr Ashley holds up two fingers side by side, then draws them apart, explaining the unimaginable thing her body must do in order for the baby to pass. The process will take some time, Dr Ashley tells her, given that this is her first pregnancy. Labor can take 24 hours, sometimes more. She searches for sharks face, but he has stepped behind the curtain the doctor has drawn. I'll be back. Assure access to her in Bengali and then a nurse. Ads. Don't you worry, Mr Ganguly. She's got a long ways to go. We can take over from here now. She is alone. Cut off my curtains from the three other women in the room. One woman's name she gathers from bits of conversation is Beverly. Another is Lois. Carol lies to her Left. ******* it! ******* you! This is ****. She here's one of them say, and then a man's voice. I love you, sweetheart. Words are Shima has neither heard nor expects to hear from her own husband. This is not how they are.