OUTSIDE PEOPLE AND OTHER STORIES

Winner of the 2018 IPPY Gold Medal for Multicultural Fiction; WInner of the 2019 American BookFest Best Book Awards for Fiction-Short Story; 2019 International Book Awards & Best Book Awards Finalist

A Haitian woman survives the ravages of an earthquake only to find her sister, an émigré in Montreal, the subject of a grisly crime. A chambermaid in a Mexican tourist resort frequented by Canadian tourists wonders why all the men in her life seem to leave her for distant lands. A Jamaican migrant worker at an Ontario chicken farm comes to the aid of his Peruvian co-worker on the eve of a fatal car accident. And a young Pakistani-Canadian woman finds herself in the midst of a protest march defending Muslim women's rights on the same day she has agreed to meet her Moroccan lover. The diverse cast of characters that energize Mariam Pirbhai's Outside People and Other Stories not only reflects a multicultural Canada but also the ease with which this striking debut collection inhabits the voices and perspectives of nation, hemisphere, and world.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Mariam Pirbhai is the author of a debut short story collection titled Outside People and Other Stories, which won the 2018 IPPY Gold Medal for Multicultural Fiction, and was ranked among CBC's top ten recommended "must read" lists of 2017. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, including Her Mother's Ashes: Stories by South Asian Women in Canada and the United States Vol III, Pakistani Creative Writing in English, and the Dalhousie Review. She is Professor of English in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, where she specializes in postcolonial and diaspora studies. She was born in Pakistan and lives in Waterloo.

DETAILS & SPECS

• Title:Outside People And Other Stories
• Format:Paperback
• Product dimensions:166 pages, 8.25 X 5.5 X 0.35 in
• Shipping dimensions:166 pages, 8.25 X 5.5 X 0.35 in
• Published:September 29, 2017
• Publisher:Inanna Publications & Education Inc.
• Language:English
• Appropriate for ages:All ages
• ISBN - 13:    9781771334334