These 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 powers to seize their freedom.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Shauna Singh Baldwin
Shauna Singh Baldwin was born in Montreal and grew up in India. Her first novel, What the Body Remembers, was longlisted for the Orange Prize and won the 2000 Commonwealth Writers Prize Best Book Award in the Caribbean and Canada region. The story that was to become that novel was awarded the Saturday Night CBC Literary Prize. She is also the author of English Lessons and Other Stories and the co-author of A Foreign Visitor’s Survival Guide to America. She lives in Milwaukee, USA.
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