

- Panjabis (South Asian people), Families, Fiction, Fiction, general
After her father's death, Nikki, who has spent most of her life distancing herself from the traditional Sikh community, takes a job teaching a creative writing course in the heart of the Punjabi community. Nikki has spent most of her life distancing herself from the traditional Sikh community. After her father's death she takes a job teaching a creative writing course in the heart of the Punjabi community. When one of the women students brings a book of erotica to class, Nicki use it as the basis for helping these modest women unleash creativity by telling their own stories.
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Contemporary, classical in form, character-led and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Balli Kaur Jaswal
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 298
- Publisher
- William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, William Morrow Paperbacks, imusti
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781538416792
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