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| Title Statement | I never said that I was brave: a novel / [book club set] : Tasneem Jamal. |
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| Author | Jamal, Tasneem |
| Publication | Toronto, ON: Anansi/House of Anansi Press,2024. |
| Extent of Item | 263 pages ; |
| ISBN | 9781487012823 (trade paperback) |
| Other Number | pr07553729 |
| Summary | "Set between the 1970s and 2010, I Never Said That I Was Brave examines the complicated relationship between two women as they navigate a culture vastly different from their parents'. Motivated by guilt and confusion, the unnamed narrator recounts the shifting dynamics of her lifelong friendship with Miriam, a charismatic astrophysicist who focuses on dark matter. As childhood immigrants to Canada from Uganda, the girls are able to assimilate (though not always easily). In adulthood, they chafe against the deeply held traditions and expectations of their South Asian community and their own internalized beliefs about women. As the narrator follows her memories on their unpredictable and unreliable paths, the reader is taken along on a devastating journey, one which blurs distinctions between right and wrong, victim and manipulator, life and death."-- |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Astrophysicists--Fiction |
| East Indians--Fiction--Canada | |
| Female friendship--Fiction | |
| Friendship--Fiction | |
| Interpersonal relations--Fiction | |
| Women--Fiction | |
| By Genre | Psychological fiction |
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