Someone You Love Is Gone - Basran, Gurjinder
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Haunted by visions of her recently departed mother, Simran is unable to move on. Grappling with the growing estrangement of her sister and daughter as well as the disintegration of her marriage, she wonders how her life has come to this. As the life she has carefully constructed unravels, she is forced to confront one of her most painful childhood memories?her parents sending her younger brother away from home. Woven throughout are memories of Simran's mother as a young woman in 1960s India. Her world had seemed beautiful and full of hope then. But when an unexpected tragedy occurs, the…mehr

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Haunted by visions of her recently departed mother, Simran is unable to move on. Grappling with the growing estrangement of her sister and daughter as well as the disintegration of her marriage, she wonders how her life has come to this. As the life she has carefully constructed unravels, she is forced to confront one of her most painful childhood memories?her parents sending her younger brother away from home. Woven throughout are memories of Simran's mother as a young woman in 1960s India. Her world had seemed beautiful and full of hope then. But when an unexpected tragedy occurs, the results will have repercussions for generations to come. As the ghosts from the past clamor for attention, the only way to put them to rest may be for Simran to dig deeper into her family history and close the circle that was left open when her family was torn apart. Lyrical and heartbreaking, Someone You Love Is Gone is a mesmerizing tale of enduring love and family ties that defy time and space, weaving together the past and present, crossing continents and spanning generations.
Autorenporträt
Gurjinder Basran's debut novel, Everything Was Good-bye, won the Search for the Great BC Novel Contest and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Award (BC Book Prize), and was selected as a Chatelaine book club pick. Basran studied creative writing at Simon Fraser University. She was born in England and moved to Canada with her family when she was a child. She lives in Delta, British Columbia, with her family.