Everything was good-bye: a novel
Basran, Gurjinder
Mother Tongue Publishing
Salt Spring Island, BC
monographic
Open WorldCat Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory
Fiction
English
cwrc:952adfb5-2b82-46fb-ab4b-15b7d9dc8360
2018-09-05T23:20:00.74Z
Everything Was Good-bye centers around Meena, a young Indo Canadian woman growing up in the lower mainland of British Columbia and traces her life as she struggles to assert her independence in a Punjabi community. Raised by her tradition bound widowed mother, Meena knows the freedoms of her Canadian peers can never be hers, but unlike her sisters, she is reluctant to submit to a life that is defined by a suitable marriage. Though a narrative moving between race and culture, it is ultimately a story of love, loss and self acceptance amidst shifting cultural ideals.
