{"id":19860,"date":"2025-04-06T17:51:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T21:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=19860"},"modified":"2025-04-06T17:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T21:51:13","slug":"noreen-nanja","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/noreen-nanja\/","title":{"rendered":"Noreen Nanja"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Noreen Nanja is a self described second generation immigrant from the Indian diaspora who grew up between urban and rural Canada.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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

The Summers Between Us<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Random House Canada, 2025.
forthcoming in May<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Lia Juma thought she\u2019d buried the dreams of her heart long ago. But when she\u2019s forced to return to her family\u2019s summer cottage on Pike Bay, the life she\u2019s carefully crafted begins to unravel. The perfect immigrant daughter, Lia has carved out a successful career as a corporate lawyer and has just started dating a man who fulfills all her mother’s criteria for the ideal son-in-law. But underneath her polished life lies a secret she\u2019s never spoken of\u2014one she fears could have destroyed her family a decade ago.

Back at the bay, Lia stumbles upon memories she thought were long forgotten\u00a0and, at the centre of it all, is Wesley Forest\u2014the boy she left behind, the boy who knew her dreams better than anyone. Their friendship and young love once burned bright, woven through long sun-drenched days and whispered promises of a future together. But when family pressures and heartbreak pulled the two lovers apart, they were forced to follow separate paths.

Now, Wes is back in her life, and with him, old wounds and feelings surface. As the two confront the choices and secrets that divided them as teenagers, Lia must decide if she can heal from the past and finally embrace the\u00a0life and love she\u2019s always craved. Could a second chance with Wes be worth risking everything for?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Noreen Nanja personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Noreen Nanja is a self described second generation immigrant from the Indian diaspora who grew up between urban and rural Canada. Fiction The Summers Between Us Toronto: Random House Canada, 2025.forthcoming in May Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website) Lia Juma … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19860","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19860"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19865,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19860\/revisions\/19865"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}