~ The Writing on my Forehead, by Nafisa Haji ~ Haji’s first novel has a beautifully evocative title; the first chapter tells of the protagonist’s childhood memories of her mother tracing Quranic verses on her forehead with a finger, to...
~ The Bride Wore Red, by Robbie Clipper Sethi ~ The author is an American woman who married a Sikh man, and the book is a collection of short stories about American women who married Sikh men. Most first-time authors...
~ English Lessons and Other Stories, by Shauna Singh Baldwin ~ Women from the Indian subcontinent are often portrayed in film and novel as strong but feminine, conservative in many ways, deeply devoted to family, silent sufferers, subject to the...
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