FROM THE PUBLISHER

Shauna Singh Baldwin's passionate stories dramatize the lives of Indian women from 1919 to today, from India to North America, and from the closed circle of the family to the wilderness of office and university. These women inhabit silence; by saying little, they can know everything. Some, imprisoned by silence, choke on their knowledge. Some use knowledge with bloody force against their oppressors. And some harness its power to seize their freedom.

SYNOPSIS

This collection includes: Rawalpindi 1919, Montreal 1962, Dropadi Ma, Family Ties, Gayatri, Simran, Toronto 1984, Lisa, A Pair of Ears, Nothing Must Spoil this Visit, English Lessons, The Cat Who Cried, The Insult, Jassie, and Devika.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

'Jassie' is written with great subtelty and deep, tender emotion. — Rudy Wiebe

"Shauna Singh Baldwin writes with clear authority." — Robert Olen Butler