Weekly (hopefully) post about the #canadianwriters #canadianbooks I think are worth reading.
Mansions of the Moon by Shyam Selvadurai is one of my all-time favourites. A gentle, beautiful book about the imagined life of Yasodhara, the woman who married Siddhartha Gautama and became a leader in her own right.
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Forty years since Black July: Seven novels about the traumatic legacy of the Sri Lankan civil war
Black July marked the beginning of a 25 year-long civil war that would result in a devastating death toll and displace 800,000 Sri Lankans.
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