{"id":11379,"date":"2020-01-13T17:40:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T22:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=11379"},"modified":"2025-01-31T19:12:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T00:12:42","slug":"kimia-eslah","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/kimia-eslah\/","title":{"rendered":"Kimia Eslah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Kimia Eslah is a feminist, queer writer who lives in Ontario. Eslah was born in Shiraz, Iran and lived with her parents and siblings in New Delhi, India before immigrating to Canada. Eslah is an instructional designer in addition to being a writer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Daughter Who Walked Away<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Halifax: Roseway Publishing, 2019.
PS8609.S45 D39 2019<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Estranged from her abusive parents as a teenager, Taraneh Pourani overcame poverty, isolation and self-hatred to build a happy home with her loving husband and children. Triggered by her young sons\u2019 annual visit with their grandparents, Taraneh becomes psychologically distressed. She begins to doubt her memories and question her decision to remain distanced from her aging parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A journey into Taraneh\u2019s family history reveals three generations of unaddressed mental illness and unresolved childhood trauma. Due to poverty in early twentieth-century Iran, Taraneh\u2019s grandmother, Batoul, is married at the age of nine and sent to live with her husband\u2019s family. Ashamed and traumatized, Batoul raises her children to expect hardships and to endure them in secret. The seeds of dysfunction are planted in Mojegan, Taraneh\u2019s mother. Mojegan is a nurse in Tehran in the 1960s when she marries the charming, but alcoholic and impulsive, Reza. She stands by Reza throughout their marriage, even after he abruptly kicks out their teenage daughter, Taraneh.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Enough<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Halifax: Fernwood Press, 2023.
PS8609.S45 E56 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Set amid the cubicles and courtyards of Toronto City Hall, Kimia Eslah\u2019s third novel centres on three women of colour navigating labyrinths at work, in love and in life. Faiza Hosseini is a cutthroat executive with a proven record \u2014 she knows she\u2019s enough, but can she circumvent the old boys\u2019 club? Sameera Jahani is passionate about equity but her girlfriend isn\u2019t \u2014 can she bridge this gap, or has she had enough? Goldie Sheer has triumphantly landed her first job, but unexpected work drama makes her question \u2014 is she really enough? With grace and insight, Eslah bares three women\u2019s experiences of structural discrimination, from microagressions to corruption.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Sister Seen, Sister Heard<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Halifax: Roseway Publishing, 2022
PS8609.S45 S57 2022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Farah\u2019s ready to move out of her parent\u2019s house. It takes an hour to get to campus, and she has no freedom to be herself. Maiheen and Mostafa, first-generation Iranian immigrants in Toronto, find their younger daughter\u2019s \u201cCanadian\u201d ways disappointing and embarrassing, and they wonder why Farah can\u2019t be like her older sister Farzana \u2014 though Farah knows things about Farzana that her parents don\u2019t. They begrudgingly agree to let Farah move, and she begins to explore her exciting new life as an independent university student. But when Farah gets assaulted on campus, everything changes. This beautiful coming-of-age story will be familiar to every immigrant in the diaspora who has struggled to find a way between cultures, every youth who has rebelled against their parents and every woman who has faced the world alone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Kimia Eslah personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Fernwood Books and its Roseway Imprint<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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