Shauna Singh Baldwin
Author of What the Body Remembers
About the Author
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Works by Shauna Singh Baldwin
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The Penguin Book of Migration Literature: Departures, Arrivals, Generations, Returns (2019) — Contributor — 78 copies
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- Birthdate
- 1962
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- Canada
- Birthplace
- Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Places of residence
- Montréal, Québec, Canada
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA - Occupations
- restaurateur
novelist - Agent
- Westwood Creative Artists Ltd
- Short biography
- Shauna Singh Baldwin (born 1962 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian-American novelist of Indian descent. Her 2000 novel What the Body Remembers won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Canadian/Caribbean Region), and her 2004 novel The Tiger Claw was nominated for the Giller Prize. She currently lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her second short-story collection, We Are Not in Pakistan, was released in Canada in 2007. (from Wikipedia)
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The selector of souls by Shauna Singh Baldwin
Set in 1990s India, this an incredibly powerful story about the complexities of the abortion issue and how toxic masculinity hijacks the debate for it's own purposes.
A bit ponderous. However, well written and leaves you with a lot of knowledge through Damini a Hindu woman and Anu, a novice in the Catholic church after escaping a abusive marriage, They bring up themes of health ( cleansing and abortions) social justice ( divorce , woman's rights) religion ( Hindu vs Muslim vs Catholic) and the history of traditions and beliefs held for years in India.
5***** and a ❤
This is an extraordinary book. The novel deals with the struggles to form Pakistan, when Muslims fought Sikhs and Hindus, and with the traditional culture vs the modern expectations. It is also a tale of woman and her place in the world. Roop is just 16 when she becomes the second wife of Sandaji (needed because 1st wife Satya is still barren after 20 years). How Roop grows and matures, how Satya descends to madness with jealousy and hatred are themes that mirror the division of India and Pakistan.
Our book club had chosen it months in advance, but our discussion took place one week after Sept 11, 2001. Couldn't have been more timely.
UPDATE April 2005
I read it again for a different book club, and got even more out of it.… (more)
This is an extraordinary book. The novel deals with the struggles to form Pakistan, when Muslims fought Sikhs and Hindus, and with the traditional culture vs the modern expectations. It is also a tale of woman and her place in the world. Roop is just 16 when she becomes the second wife of Sandaji (needed because 1st wife Satya is still barren after 20 years). How Roop grows and matures, how Satya descends to madness with jealousy and hatred are themes that mirror the division of India and Pakistan.
Our book club had chosen it months in advance, but our discussion took place one week after Sept 11, 2001. Couldn't have been more timely.
UPDATE April 2005
I read it again for a different book club, and got even more out of it.… (more)
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