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ISBN 13: 978-1-894759-73-1
ISBN 10: 1-894759-73-7
Price: $24.95 CAD; $24.95 USD
Paperback
6 x 9 - 240 pp
April 2012

by Raminder Sidhu

A courageous and timely novel, Tears of Mehndi explores the rich, complex and often heartbreaking lives of a tight-knit community in Vancouver’s Little India.

Book Description

Through the perspectives of several women whose lives intertwine over a generation, Raminder Sidhu deftly exposes the shrouded violence within Canada’s Punjabi community, a difficult and often dissembled subject. Sidhu’s characters are women caught between two cultures, struggling to understand the traditions they are obliged to follow while still embracing and often welcoming the fundamentally different values of the West.