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Seven Book
Book | Dundurn, Toronto, Ontario : [2020]

  • 6 of 7 Copies Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative (Show)
  • 1 of 1 Copy Available at Fort Erie Library System
  • 0 current holds with 7 total copies.
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Branch Call Number Location Holdable? Status
Centennial FIC DOCTO 2020 Fiction Copy hold / Volume hold Available
About

A rich, soulfully written novel about inheritance and resistance that tests the balance between modern and traditional customs. When Sharifa accompanies her husband on a marriage-saving trip to India, she thinks that she's going to research her great-great-grandfather, a wealthy business leader and philanthropist. What captures her imagination is not his rags-to-riches story, but the mystery of his four wives, missing from the family lore. She ends up excavating much more than she had imagined. Sharifa's trip coincides with a time of unrest within her insular and conservative religious community, and there is no escaping its politics. A group of feminists is speaking out against khatna, an age-old ritual they insist is female genital cutting. Sharifa's two favourite cousins are on opposite sides of the debate, and she seeks a middle ground. As the issue heats up, Sharifa discovers an unexpected truth and is forced to take a position.
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  • ISBN: 1459746392 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9781459746398 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: print404 pages
  • Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : Dundurn, [2020]
  • Copyright: ©2020
  • General Note: LSC 22.99

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