![]() ![]() I love the set up and it breaks up some of the heavier topics. This book is half novel half poetry and it is really amazing. This book has many trigger warnings, which the author dedicates a page of listing them to warn the reader prior to jumping in. I always feel books that touch upon highly sensitive topics need to be 5⭐️ because, though I’ve never (thankfully) experienced these things I know many people who have and it changed their lives immensely. ![]() Sahaara must find the best way to support her mother while also dealing with the revelation about her parents. Horrified, Sahaara encourages Kiran to speak out against the man who raped her-who’s now a popular political figure in Punjab. In the aftermath, Kiran reveals the truth about Sahaara’s conception. For Kiran, living undocumented means constant anxiety over finances, work, safety, and whether she’ll be deported back to the dangers that await her in Punjab.Įighteen years later, Kiran’s daughter, Sahaara, is desperate to help her mother, who has been arrested and is facing deportation. When her fiancé and family don’t believe her, she flees her home in India to Canada, where she plans to raise the child as a single mother. Kiran is a young Punjabi Sikh woman who becomes pregnant after being sexually assaulted by her fiancé’s brother. Told in prose, poetry, and illustration, this heartrending story weaves Kiran’s and Sahaara’s timelines together, showing a teenage Kiran and, later, her high school–aged daughter, Sahaara. ![]()
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