SEVEN

From activist, social worker and award-winning author Farzana Doctor, winner of the 2012 Lambda Literary Award and recipient of the 2011 Dayne Ogilvie Award from the Writers' Trust of Canada for an emerging lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender writer, the story of Sharifa, a woman who accompanies her husband on a marriage-saving trip to India, where she decides to research her great-greatgrandfather and his four wives, uncovering secrets about her family's long and complicated history on both sides of the Khatna debate and her own deeply buried personal history

• Told with incredible intimacy and unflinching honesty, Seven is an absorbing account of a woman who finds herself chasing ghosts and struggling to decipher the difference between fact and fiction, discovering that the truth is made up of a patchwork of each, and that revealing it will bring indelible changes for herself and her community

• For readers of Taiye Selasi's Ghana Must Go and Shilpi Somaya Gowda's Secret Daughter, this is a portrayal of a healing marriage, a family-style saga with an unfolding historical mystery at its core, and a nuanced exploration of gender and sexual politics in a highly religious sect in India