Shauna Singh Baldwin’s passionate stories dramatize the lives of Indian women from 1919 to today, from India to Canada to the US. Through the eyes of these women adjusting to change, we see a world whose familiar rhythms mask dissonance and discordance. More overt is the ongoing struggle for the ...
This could have been a much better account of what is a real story, were it not for the frequent exceedingly self-absorbed religious & philosophical musings of the heroine Noor Khan, in times of difficulty during her emprisonment in particular. She was the daughter of a Sufi teacher & veena musi...
Ten years after her stunning debut, Shauna Singh Baldwin returns to Goose Lane with an outstanding new collection of ten stories. Migrating from Central America to the American South, from Metro Toronto to the Ukraine, this book features an unforgettable cast of characters. In the title story, 16...
“They said I could have the job if I take off my turban and cut my hair short.” You did not have to say it. I saw it in your face as you took off your new coat and galoshes. I heard their voices in my head as I looked at the small white envelopes I have left in the drawer, each full of one more d...
But confession cleanses, whatever form it takes. Damini is talking to the ojha, and to Lord Golunath. There’s no test to know if the ojha is speaking or Lord Golunath. Which is the human, which the divine? Everyone seems to believe and know Lord Golunath is here. Have I become so Catholic I can’t...