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Bone and bread / Saleema Nawaz.

Summary:

When sisters Beena and Sadhana are orphaned as teenagers and sent to live with their Sikh uncle in Montreal's Hasidic community, their lives take divergent courses as they deal with their grief in different ways.
Beena and Sadhana are sisters who share a bond that could only have been shaped by the most unusual of childhoods--and by shared tragedy. Orphaned as teenagers, they have grown up under the exasperated watch of their Sikh uncle, who runs a bagel shop in Montreal's Hasidic community of Mile End. Together, they try to make sense of the rich, confusing brew of values, rituals, and beliefs that form their inheritance. Yet as they grow towards adulthood, their paths begin to diverge. Beena catches the attention of one of the "bagel boys" and finds herself pregnant at sixteen, while Sadhana drives herself to perfectionism and anorexia.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781770890091 (trade paperback) :
  • Physical Description: 448 pages ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : House of Anansi Press, 2013.

Content descriptions

Awards Note:
Canada Reads 2016 finalist.
Subject: Sikh Canadians > Fiction.
Sisters > Fiction
Orphans > Fiction.
Grief > Fiction.
Guilt > Fiction.
Sisters > Death > Psychological aspects > Fiction.
Asian Canadians > Fiction.
Mile-End (Montréal, Québec) > Fiction.
Genre: Domestic fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Radium Hot Springs Public Library.

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