India The Miramichi Reader

Hands Like Trees by Sabyasachi Nag

March 31, 2023 by Lucy E. M. Black

Hands Like Trees by Sabyasachi Nag is a pristine collection of nine short stories, each of which is filled with both exquisite descriptions and moments of deep unease.

Face: A Novel of the Anthropocene by Jaspreet Singh

March 6, 2023March 6, 2023 by Stephanie Sirois

In his playful yet deeply serious third novel Jaspreet Singh links a fossil fraud in India, an ice core archive in Canada, and a climate change laboratory in Germany.

Land for Fatimah by Veena Gokhale

March 7, 2019February 23, 2019 by James M. Fisher

Land for Fatimah is an excellent example of the type of book that exists to broaden the horizons of those with an interest in novels with multi-cultural roots, showing a way of life that is unknown to many of us.

Peacock in the Snow by Anubha Mehta

August 19, 2019November 3, 2018 by James M. Fisher

Born to privilege and wed to her high school sweetheart Veer, a free-spirited Maya feels trapped in a conventional upper-class family with patriarchal expectations in India. Curiosity leads Maya to unearth a dark family secret, a brutal ancestral murder which begins to haunt her and also affect her new marriage.

The Pratap Reddy Interview

October 4, 2018October 4, 2018 by James M. Fisher

Pratap Reddy is the author of two books, 2018’s Ramya’s Treasure and his 2016 collection of short stories Weather Permitting and Other Stories. Both books are published by Montreal’s Guernica Editions and were also longlisted here at The Miramichi Reader for “The Very Best!” Book Award for Fiction.