English Lessons and Other Stories

The new reader’s guide edition of Shauna Singh Baldwin’s literary debut features the fifteen stories from the original collection, an interview with the author, an original afterword, and her suggested reading list. When Shauna Singh Baldwin’s debut collection was first published in 1996, it took readers by storm. Reviewers discovered a new voice; listeners tuned in to the stories on CBC Radio. Since then, Baldwin has written two award-winning novels and, in 2007, a second story collection, We Are Not in Pakistan. Dramatizing the lives of Indian women from 1919 to the present, from India to North America, Shauna Singh Baldwin travels from the intimate sphere of family to the wasteland of office and university.

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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.

Chapter Title Contents Contributors Pages Year Price

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Rawalpindi 1919 3 $0.30

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Montreal 1962 4 $0.40

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Dropadi Ma 4 $0.40

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Family Ties 17 $1.70

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Gayatri 7 $0.70

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Simran 17 $1.70

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Toronto 1984 7 $0.70

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Lisa 7 $0.70

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A Pair of Ears 23 $2.30

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Nothing Must Spoil This Visit 32 $3.20

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English Lessons 5 $0.50

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The Cat Who Cried 9 $0.90

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The Insult 6 $0.60

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Jassie 7 $0.70

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Devika 22 $2.20

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Afterword 6 $0.60