{"id":16110,"date":"2023-02-20T18:27:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T23:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=16110"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:07:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:07:15","slug":"priya-guns","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/priya-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Priya Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Priya Guns was born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, but raised in Scarborough (Toronto\/Tkaronto), Ontario. Guns is a writer and actor. She graduated from York University in Toronto and studied creative writing at Kingston University in the U.K. Guns lives in the U.K and the Middle East. As of summer 2025 she is completing a second novel tentatively titled Hustle Baby<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Your Driver is Waiting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2023.
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In this electrifyingly fierce and funny social satire\u2014 a gender-flipped reboot of the iconic 1970\u2019s film \u201cTaxi Driver\u201d\u2014a ride share driver is barely holding it together on the hunt for love, dignity and financial security . . . until she decides she’s done waiting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damani is tired. Her father just died on the job at a fast food joint, and now she lives paycheck to paycheck in a basement, caring for her mom and driving for an app that is constantly cutting her take. The city is roiling in protests –everybody’s in solidarity with somebody– but while she keeps hearing that they\u2019re fighting for change on behalf of people like her,<\/em> she literally can\u2019t afford to pay attention.

Then she gives a ride to Jolene (5 stars, obviously). Jolene seems like she could be the perfect girlfriend – attentive, attractive, an ally – and their chemistry is off the charts. Jolene\u2019s done the reading, she goes to every protest, and she says all the right things. So maybe Damani can look past the one thing that’s holding her back: She\u2019s never dated anyone with money before, not to mention a white girl with money. But just as their romance intensifies and Damani finally lets her guard down, Jolene does something unforgivable, setting off an explosive chain of events.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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