The main purpose of the freedman's bureau was to

to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.The main goal of the Freedmen's Bureau was to help freed slaves and other people displaced as a result of the Civil War. The Freedmen's Bureau...

On March 3, 1865, Congress passed “An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees” to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.

so the story tells of someone named kaushik choudhuri, but he does not narrate the story, a girl named hema does. hema tells the story in a second person point of view because you (the reader) are supposed to be the boy named kaushik.

here's an excerpt i found: "i was ushered into the fitting room, your mother watching approvingly as i took off my coat and sweater and tried on the bra."

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