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Gurjinder Basran

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Gurjinder Basran

Gurjinder Basran’s debut novel, EVERYTHING WAS GOOD-BYE, was the winner of the BC Book Prize, Ethel Wilson Fiction Award in 2011 and named as a Chatelaine Magazine Book Club pick in 2012.  Gurjinder was named by the CBC as one of "Ten Canadian women writers you need to read." Gurjinder studied Creative Writing at Simon Fraser University.  She lives in Delta, BC with her family.

Gurjinder Basran

Books by Gurjinder Basran

by Gurjinder Basran - Fiction

Simran’s mother has died but is not gone. Haunted by her mother’s spirit and memories of the past, she struggles to make sense of her world. Faced with disillusion in her marriage, growing distance from her daughter and sister, and the return of her long-estranged brother, she is troubled by questions to which she has no answers. As the life Simran has carefully constructed unravels, she must confront the truth of why her brother was separated from the family at a young age, and in doing so she uncovers an ancestral inheritance that changes everything.