{"id":11102,"date":"2019-07-30T18:39:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T22:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=11102"},"modified":"2024-01-12T18:41:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T23:41:30","slug":"saumiya-balasubramaniam","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/saumiya-balasubramaniam\/","title":{"rendered":"Saumiya Balasubramaniam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Saumiya Balasubramaniam has a masters degree in computer science and works as a software analyst. She was born in Mumbai but now calls Scarborough home. She has written essays for newspapers in India and Canada and received the prestigious Bram and Bluma Appel Scholarship from the Humber School for Writers. When I Found Grandma<\/em> is her debut children’s book.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Juvenile, Picture book)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Two Drops of Brown in a Cloud of White<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Illustrated by Eva Campbell.
Toronto: Groundwood Books, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n

Ma misses the sun, warmth and colors of their faraway homeland, but her daughter sees magic in everything \u2014 the clouds in the winter sky, the \u201cfirework\u201d display when she throws an armful of snow into the air, making snow angels, tasting snowflakes. And in the end, her joy is contagious. Home is where family is, after all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Juvenile, Picture book)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When I Found Grandma<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Illustrated by Qin Leng
Toronto: Groundwood Books, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n

Ma misses the sun, warmth and colors of their faraway homeland, but her daughter sees magic in everything \u2014 the clouds in the winter sky, the \u201cfirework\u201d display when she throws an armful of snow into the air, making snow angels, tasting snowflakes. And in the end, her joy is contagious. Home is where family is, after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Maya\u2019s grandma makes a surprise visit from thousands of miles away, Maya is delighted. But her excitement doesn\u2019t last long. When Grandma picks her up from school, she wears fancy clothes and talks too loudly. Grandma\u2019s morning prayer bells wake Maya up, and she cooks with ingredients Maya doesn\u2019t usually eat. Plus, Maya thinks cupcakes taste better than Grandma\u2019s homemade sweets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maya and Grandma try to compromise, and on a special trip to the island Grandma even wears an \u201call-American\u201d baseball cap. But when Maya rushes off to find the carousel, she loses sight of her mother, father and grandmother. She is alone in a sea of people \u2014 until she spots something bobbing above the crowd, and right away she knows how to find her way.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Juvenile, Picture book)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When I Visited Grandma<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Illustrated by Kavita Ramchandran.
Toronto: Groundwood Books, 2024.
forthcoming April 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s Maya\u2019s first morning in India, but Grandma is already rushing her \u2014 it\u2019s market day and they must make the most of Maya\u2019s visit. When Maya comes out of her room wearing her favorite ripped jeans, Grandma wants to sew them! Maya finds the market too hot, too loud, and it\u2019s full of Grandma\u2019s nosy neighbors. Even back at home, Grandma\u2019s friends keep dropping by. Maya just longs to be left alone. But the next morning the house is unusually quiet. Dad explains that Grandma has had to go to the hospital. And suddenly Maya begins to see things differently \u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Saumiya Balasubramaniam’s essay about her first book<\/a> from the Groundwood blog posted Feb. 27, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Groundwood Books<\/a>, an imprint of House of Anansi Press<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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