Mother Superior

By (author): Saleema Nawaz

A prostitute takes shelter with a group of young anarchists. A sister goes missing, mailing a trail of encoded postcards from destinations across the globe. The daughters of a Montreal bagel-shop owner navigate the tricky terrain of being young, Sikh, and female, one growing larger while the other fades. A woman watches with lust and longing as the object of her affections, her pregnant roommate, is pursued by an unsavory suitor. And a precocious child spies on her adoptive mother, trying to grasp the secret of her mother’s hidden obsession and of her own unexplained origins.

The seven stories and two novellas in Mother Superior are a heady blend of misfits and mothers, of sisters and complex, mysterious others. Nawaz traces the scars left by family secrets and sings the complex, captivating language of lust and of love.

AUTHOR

Saleema Nawaz

Saleema Nawaz is the author of a novel, Bone and Bread, which was a Canada Reads selection in 2016, and a collection of short stories, Mother Superior. Bone and Bread is based on “Bloodlines,” a story in Mother Superior. She is the winner of Journey Prize for her story “My Three Girls,” included in Mother Superior. Saleema lives in Montreal.

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“Nawaz’s stories have a huge diversity of voices and perspectives, and are filled with great eloquence and great compassion.” QUILL AND QUIRE


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A prostitute takes shelter with a group of young anarchists. A sister goes missing, mailing a trail of encoded postcards from destinations across the globe. The daughters of a Montreal bagel-shop owner navigate the tricky terrain of being young, Sikh, and female, one growing larger while the other fades. A woman watches with lust and longing as the object of her affections, her pregnant roommate, is pursued by an unsavory suitor. And a precocious child spies on her adoptive mother, trying to grasp the secret of her mother’s hidden obsession and of her own unexplained origins.

The seven stories and two novellas in Mother Superior are a heady blend of misfits and mothers, of sisters and complex, mysterious others. Nawaz traces the scars left by family secrets and sings the complex, captivating language of lust and of love.

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Dimensions:

272 Pages
8.5in * 5.5in * 0.75in
0.7496lb

Published:

September 01, 2008

Country of Publication:

CA

Publisher:

Freehand Books

ISBN:

9781551119274

Book Subjects:

FICTION / Short Stories

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Language:

eng

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