We are not in Pakistan: Short Stories
Shauna Singh Baldwinwill be reading from
WE ARE NOT IN PAKISTAN: STORIES
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
at 7 pm at the
Toronto Reference Library
in the Beeton Auditorium
The ten stories in We Are Not in Pakistan illuminate a
paradox: love and fear draw us together, yet drive us to extremes of separation.
Sixteen-year-old Kathleen believes her family would be normal if not for her
Pakistani grandmother. Olena a Ukrainian woman living in Moscow discovers that
her husband's exciting new posting will draw her dangerously close to her
disapproving mother-in-law. Fletcher, a Lhasa apso finds himself in the middle
of a game between his mistress and her commitment-phobic boyfriend. Tania tries
to transform herself from an exotic dancer into the wife her doctor husband
wants.
Opposites clash and realign till the very last story, when Dr. Karanbir Singh receives an email from a young woman who professes to be the child of his 1980s green-card marriage. Eliciting amusement, curiosity, and wonder mingled with sadness for our post-9/11 world, Shauna Singh Baldwin lures us into intimacy with the displaced men, women and other animals who populate We Are Not in Pakistan. Along the way, she explores our complex human responses to technology, art and most of all, our fellow humans.
Check it out!
Syerah
Opposites clash and realign till the very last story, when Dr. Karanbir Singh receives an email from a young woman who professes to be the child of his 1980s green-card marriage. Eliciting amusement, curiosity, and wonder mingled with sadness for our post-9/11 world, Shauna Singh Baldwin lures us into intimacy with the displaced men, women and other animals who populate We Are Not in Pakistan. Along the way, she explores our complex human responses to technology, art and most of all, our fellow humans.
Check it out!
Syerah
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