Simran

By Shauna Singh Baldwin

Commonwealth Prize winner Shauna Singh Baldwin's glittering story "Simran" is from her 1996 debut collection, English Lessons and Other Stories. Published on the occasion of Goose Lane Editions's 60th anniversary, it is also part of the six@sixty collection.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
• Release date: Oct 7, 2014
• ISBN: 9780864927354

Shauna Singh Baldwin

Shauna Singh Baldwin’s first novel, What the Body Remembers, was published in 1999 by Knopf Canada, Transworld UK, Doubleday USA, and (as an audiobook) by Goose Lane Editions. It received the 2000 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best Book (Canada-Caribbean region) and has been translated into fourteen languages. Her second novel The Tiger Claw was a finalist for Canada's Giller Prize 2004. Shauna is the author of English Lessons and Other Stories and coauthor of A Foreign Visitor’s Survival Guide to America. Her awards include the 1995 Writer’s Union of Canada Award for short prose and the 1997 Canadian Literary Award. English Lessons received the 1996 Friends of American Writers Award. A former radio producer and ecommerce consultant, her fiction and poems are widely published in literary magazines and anthologies in the US, Canada, and India. She has served on several juries and teaches short courses in creative writing. Shauna holds an MBA from Marquette University and an MFA from the University of British Columbia. We Are Not in Pakistan: Stories was published by Goose Lane Editions in 2007. Shauna’s third novel, The Selector of Souls, was published by Knopf Canada in September 2012. Reviews, reading schedule, and interviews at: www.ShaunaSinghBaldwin.com.

Book preview

Simran

For Goose Lane’s diamond anniversary — an array of six scintillating stories, gems mined from sixty years of Canada’s finest publishing and polished to the brightest hues. This multi-volume collection includes the following:

Famed poet Alden Nowlan’s A Boy’s Life of Napoleon, adapted from his first novel, The Wanton Troopers, posthumously published by Goose Lane in 1988

Douglas Glover’s strange and affecting

Woman Gored by Bison Lives

The Three Marys, a Christmas story with a bite, adapted by Lynn Coady from her debut novel, Strange Heaven

Simran, a twisting tour-de-force by

Shauna Singh Baldwin

Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer’s stunning

What Had Become of Us

Knife Party, a wild tale of an Italian vacation gone off the rails, from Mark Anthony Jarman’s highly anticipated new collection, forthcoming in 2015

Fiction by Shauna Singh Baldwin

The Selector of Souls (2012)

We Are Not in Pakistan (2007)

The Tiger Claw (2004)

What the Body Remembers (1999)

English Lessons and Other Stories (1996)

Simran previously appeared in Shauna Singh Baldwin’s 1996 story collection, English Lessons and Other Stories, published by Goose Lane Editions.

AMRIT

Veeru and I had dinner at the Delhi Gymkhana Club around midnight and then drove to greet Simran at Palam airport. I was the first to find her as we peered through the glass wall smeared by the breath of waiting friends and relatives. She looked bright and alive despite a twenty-six-hour plane ride, and she’ d put on a little weight in just four months in America. I was glad to see she was excited to see us. In America, children learn that they can blame their parents for everything and then they all, parents and children, spend