A review by christajls
Bone and Bread by Saleema Nawaz

4.0

Bone & Bread was first published in 2012, but four years later it still feels timely. It opens with Beena Bone and Bread, Saleema Nawaz, House of Anansi, 2012coping with the death of her younger sister, Sadhana, but as it goes on it tells the story of their lives, from when they were children to when Beena’s own child is getting ready to leave home for the first time. And a story of young girls trying to find their place in the world will always be relevant. Both Sadhana and Beena come into contact with a family seeking asylum in Canada and with the recent arrival of Syrian refugees in real life, the anti-immigration positions of a (fictional) Canadian political party sounded uncomfortably familiar. But it really feels as though the central theme of this novel is that people are always starting over, and that’s something Canadians of every generation, gender or political affiliation can relate to.

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