Sister Seen, Sister Heard

by Kimia Eslah

Unapologetically raw and intimate, this book forces us to acknowledge women of colour, their experiences and traumas, and how they fit into the framework of a settler colonial Canadian society. A fresh and provocative look at the immigrant experience that will stay with you.

—taslim burkowicz, author of The Desirable Sister and Chocolate Cherry Chai subject categories fiction / Own Voices fiction / Literary fiction / Asian American kimia eslah is a feminist writer and a queer woman of colour. Her work has been featured on CBC Books, Ms. Magazine and The Miramichi Reader. She is the author of The Daughter Who Walked Away. Her novels explore the effects of systemic discrimination, patriarchy, mental illness and queerphobia on Canadian women of colour. sexual assault; stalking; Iran; immigrant; diaspora; police; racialized sexism; campus

A story for every immigrant struggling between cultures, every youth rebelling against parents, and every woman facing assault alone.

Farah’s ready to move out of her parent’s house. It takes an hour to get to campus, and she has no freedom to be herself. Maiheen and Mostafa, first-generation Iranian immigrants in Toronto, find their younger daughter’s “Canadian” ways disappointing and embarrassing, and they wonder why Farah can’t be like her older sister Farzana — though Farah knows things about Farzana that her parents don’t. They begrudgingly agree to let Farah move, and she begins to explore her exciting new life as an independent university student. But when Farah gets assaulted on campus, everything changes. This beautiful coming-of-age story will be familiar to every immigrant in the diaspora who has struggled to find a way between cultures, every youth who has rebelled against their parents and every woman who has faced the world alone.

Paperback • 9781773634418

$22.00 • June 2021

Digital Formats • $21.99

5.5 x 8.5"

• 300 pp • Rights: World