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mother superior
mother superior introduces saleema nawaz as a truly bold new voice in fiction . gorgeous sensuous prose and edgy taboo breaking subject matter combine to create a collection quite unlike anything else being published today.a prostitute takes shelter with a group of young anarchists . a sister goes missing mailing a trail of encoded postcards from destinations across the globe . the daughters of a montreal bagel shop owner navigate the tricky terrain of being young sikh and female one growing larger while the other fades . a woman watches with lust and longing as the object of her affections her pregnant roommate is pursued by an unsavory suitor . and a precocious child spies on her adoptive mother trying to grasp the secret of her mothers hidden obsession and of her own unexplained origins.the seven stories and two novellas in mother superior are a heady blend of misfits and mothers of sisters and complex mysterious others . nawaz traces the scars left by family secrets and sings the complex captivating language of lust and of love .
paperback broadview pr 2008 isbn13 9781551119274 isbn10 1551119277
book type fi isbn 13 9781551119274 number of pages 289 publisher broadview pr release date 62135769600000