Love, Queenie : Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star - by Mayukh Sen Anne Bronte "The best kind of book:

"The best kind of book: one that I gobbled up

like wine through water

joyous reunions (Anne of Green Gables)

This book is not a criticism or discussion of the Brontë's works but an examination of how these four exceptional siblings related to each other and how their relationships affected all of their lives with unforeseen and unexpected consequences

Love, Queenie : Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star - by Mayukh Sen Anne Bronte "The best kind of book:Merle Oberon attained Hollywood immortality with a nomination for a Best Leading Actress Oscar for her role in the 1935 film The Dark Angel. It was the first time a performer of colour had received an acting nomination at the Academy Awards but because Oberon concealed her South Asian identity throughout her lifetime and passed for white, very few people knew it. In Love, Queenie, the first biography in more than forty years of the India born actress,