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My Mother, My Translator
Jaspreet Singh
This memoir in essays follows the men and especially the women of Singh’s family, from the 1918 epidemic, through the 1947 Partition of India, Singh’s childhood in Kashmir and with his grandparents in Indian Punjab to his arrival in Canada in 1990 to study the sciences, and up to the pandemic of 2020, as he explores personal relationships, inherited and direct trauma, and ways to deal with the climate crisis.
