The India-based journalist Shakoor Rather’s debut novel, “Life in the Clock Tower Valley,” delivers a unique look into Kashmir, where normal, day-to-day life unfolds amid unrest and uncertainty.
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Farzana Doctor, author of “Seven,” makes sure that the characters in her stories are psychologically informed. “There is so much misinformation out there about how people experience and remember trauma. I want to dispel that,” she tells NCM’s Baisakhi Roy.
View More Author Farzana Doctor On Trauma, Belonging and Female Genital Mutilation
“We have to reveal the truth. We have to tell things as they are. If not, then they repeat. We cannot sugarcoat things.” — Alison Clarke, author of Phillis.
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Le nouveau livre de Monique Polak propose 21 recettes pour tisser des liens entre les cultures et les histoires des immigrants et des autochtones grâce au pouvoir de la nourriture.
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Monique Polak’s new recipe book features 19 recipes from Quebec’s first-generation immigrants and First Nations communities as a way to bridge various cultures and histories together through food.
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Souvankham Thammavongsa, author of the Giller Prize–winning short story collection “How to Pronounce Knife,” creates immigrant characters who defy expectations. “They don’t want to learn to speak English and fit in,” she tells NCM’s Baisakhi Roy.
View More ‘I Don’t Write From the Margins’: Author Souvankham Thammavongsa
“Butter Honey Pig Bread,” a debut novel by Francesca Ekwuyasi, is a cosmopolitan story of a multi-generational family that mixes the ancient Nigerian myths of the Igbo and the Yoruba people with scenes of contemporary urban life in Nigeria, England and Canada.
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Nilofar Shidmehr’s collection of short stories, Divided Loyalties, provides a vivid look into the political and cultural events that have shaped Iranian society since the 1979 Revolution through the lens of an Iranian female immigrant in Canada.
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Hana Shafi’s new book Small, Broke, and Kind of Dirty, features affirmations and images related to her own life, racism, feminism and pop culture. NCM’s Marcus Medford shares his interview with the award-winning poet and artist.
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Little free libraries are a great tool for newcomers to integrate with Canadian society. Due to the pandemic, they are becoming even handier.
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