{"id":21695,"date":"2026-03-08T14:37:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T18:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=21695"},"modified":"2026-03-08T20:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T00:19:12","slug":"zeenat-nagree","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/zeenat-nagree\/","title":{"rendered":"Zeenat Nagree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Zeenat Nagree is an independent curator and writer who grew up in Bombay and now divides her time between Montr\u00e9al and India. Nagree studied art history in Chicago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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

My Summer Vacation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Montr\u00e9al: Esplanade Books \/ V\u00e9hicule Press, 2026.
forthcoming March 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

An auto-fictional account of a childhood ending in turn-of-the-century India, delivered by an entrancing new voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When at year\u2019s end a schoolteacher asks her pupils to write an essay about their vacations over the summer, twelve-year-old Zeenat turns the routine exercise into a daily exploration of her innermost thoughts. It is the dawn of a new millennium, and she\u2019s coming of age in a politically unstable Mumbai that is still resolutely Bombay to her Muslim community. Though the world beyond her window is full of change, Zeenat spends long hours bored inside her family apartment, preoccupied with the cockroaches under the fridge, the pigeon\u2019s nest above the cupboard, the shared toilet in the building, and the American shows on TV. At night, she reads English books in the kitchen as she questions where she fits between languages in this post-colonial society.  But as summer drags on, the boredom of her  routine gives way to anxieties around the place of women in society, the violence that lurks underneath their daily lives, and the anticipation of childhood\u2019s end.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Zeenat Nagree personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher V\u00e9hicule Press<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zeenat Nagree is an independent curator and writer who grew up in Bombay and now divides her time between Montr\u00e9al and India. Nagree studied art history in Chicago. Fiction My Summer Vacation Montr\u00e9al: Esplanade Books \/ V\u00e9hicule Press, 2026.forthcoming March … 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-21695","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21695","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=21695"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21701,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21695\/revisions\/21701"}],"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=21695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}