Books

Chatelaine recently co-hosted Gurjinder Basran at a Book Club event for her debut novel, and our April pick, Everything Was Good-Bye.

When a rock crashes through Amelia J. McGee’s window, the fiery NAACP activist hurriedly sends her daughter, Ella, on the next bus home to Georgia.

Author Gurjinder Basran talks with Chatelaine about her award-winning debut novel, its themes of personal and cultural identity, love and loss and her heroine’s tragic struggle to find her own way in life.

Circus strongman Edouard Beaupré of Willow Bunch, Sask., stood over eight feet tall and died in 1904 at just 23. For years, Université de Montréal researchers examined his remains in search of his secrets — why did his spine continue to shrink after death while his skull grew?

Lora, Alex and I discuss the concluding section of Gurjinder Basran’s debut novel (page 197 to the end), and how pleased we were with the perhaps unexpected way things turned out for our heroine, Meena, and her family.