{"id":14986,"date":"2022-05-12T15:56:13","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T19:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=14986"},"modified":"2022-05-12T15:56:13","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T19:56:13","slug":"reema-patel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/reema-patel\/","title":{"rendered":"Reema Patel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Reema Patel earned a B.A. from McGill and a J.D. from the University of Windsor. She worked in the youth non-profit sector and human rights advocacy in Mumbai before returning to Canada where she she worked in provincial and municipal government. A lawyer living in Toronto, Patel won a student award for fiction at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Education.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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

Such Big Dreams<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Rakhi is a twenty-three-year-old former street child haunted by the grisly aftermath of an incident that led her to lose her best friend eleven years ago. Constantly reminded she doesn\u2019t belong, Rakhi lives alone in a Mumbai slum, working as a lowly office assistant at Justice For All, a struggling human rights law office headed by the renowned lawyer who gave her a fresh start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fiercely intelligent and in possession of a sharp wit and an even sharper tongue, Rakhi is\u00a0nobody\u2019s fool, even if she is underestimated by everyone around her.\u00a0Rakhi’s life isn’t\u00a0much, but\u00a0she’s managing. That is until a fading former Bollywood starlet tries to edge her way back into the spotlight by becoming a celebrity ambassador for Justice For All.\u00a0Steering the organization into uncharted territories, she demands an internship for her young Canadian family friend, Alex, a Harvard-bound graduate student. Ambitious, persistent, and naive, Alex\u00a0persuades Rakhi to show him “the real” India. In exchange, he\u2019ll do something to further Rakhi\u2019s dreams in a transaction that seems harmless, at first. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As old guilt and new aspirations collide, everything Rakhi once knew to be true is set ablaze. And as the stakes mount, she will come face to face with the difficult choices and moral compromises that people are prepared to make in order to survive, no matter the costs. Reema Patel\u2019s transportive debut novel offers a moving, smart, and arrestingly funny look at the cost of ambition and power in reclaiming one\u2019s story.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Reema Patel personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Penguin Random House Canada<\/a>, publisher of McClelland & Stewart<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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