Seven - by Farzana Doctor (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>While researching her great-great grandfather on a trip to India, Sharifa stumbles upon family secrets and must face the indelible mark they've left on her life.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>FINALIST FOR THE 2021 TRILLIUM AWARD - FINALIST FOR THE 2021 EVERGREEN AWARD - AN INDIGO BEST BOOK OF 2020 - A <i>GLOBE AND MAIL</i> BEST INDEPENDENT READ FOR FALL 2020 - AN APPLE BOOKS BEST BOOK OF 2020 - A CBC BOOKS BEST CANADIAN FICTION BOOK OF 2020 - A NOW MAGAZINE TOP TEN BOOK OF 2020 </b><br/><br/><b>Be prepared for this novel to stay with you for a long time, especially its ending.--<i>GLOBE AND MAIL</i><br/>[An] extraordinary book... packed with discovery and jarring emotional arcs.--<i>TORONTO STAR</i><br/>Penetrating and subtle ... [An] immersive, absorbing portrait.--EDEN ROBINSON<br/>Explores with courage and storytelling finesse the harsh truths within the ideals of kinship and community. --DAVID CHARIANDY<br/>An urgent and passionate read. --VIVEK SHRAYA<br/>Visceral and emotional... a courageous feat.--QUILL & QUIRE (starred review)</b><br/><br/><b>A brave, soulfully written feminist novel about inheritance and resistance that tests the balance between kinship and the fight against customs that harm us.</b><br/><br/>When Sharifa accompanies her husband on a marriage-saving trip to India in 2016, she thinks that she's going to research her great-great-grandfather, a wealthy business leader and philanthropist. What captures her imagination is not his rags-to-riches story, but the mystery of his four wives, missing from the family lore. She ends up excavating much more than she had imagined.<br/><br/>Sharifa's trip coincides with a time of unrest within her insular and conservative religious community, and there is no escaping its politics. A group of feminists is speaking out against khatna, an age-old ritual they insist is female genital cutting. Sharifa's two favourite cousins are on opposite sides of the debate and she seeks a middle ground. As the issue heats up, Sharifa discovers an unexpected truth and is forced to take a position.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Although its subject matter is serious and heavy, the novel keeps the reader engaged until the very end. Given the book's themes of trauma, trust, resistance, gendered violence, and sexual violence, it is likely of interest to readers and scholars of gender studies, trauma studies, and sexuality studies.-- "AwaaZ Magazine"<br><br>Farzana Doctor's <i>Seven</i> widens the scope, addressing the harms of silence, silencing, and compliance as responses to trauma in the political sphere as well as within the personal, familial, and communal. It does so gradually, coming from a place of learning and caution.-- "Event Magazine"<br><br><i>Seven</i> feels more like a close friend sharing than an author telling a tale. Many authors aspire for this sort of sublimity, but it is Doctor's effortlessness in creating this intimacy that gives the feeling that she is an author on the verge of transcending the barrier between author and reader.-- "Prism Magazine"<br><br>Doctor creates a vibrant world full of the conundrums of belonging in the community; the insidiousness of belief and its silent power, the meaning of being female, surrounded by centuries of a culture and religion.-- "New York Journal of Books"<br><br>Doctor's writing is skillfully layered, yielding a novel that is complex, gripping, and thought-provoking ... <i>Seven</i> is a singular engrossing, emotional, and empowering story of the strengths of women, family, and truth.-- "India Currents"<br><br>Not only is this a story of the demystification of patriarchal taboos and prohibitions, but also a wonderful exploration of women's relationships with other women as mothers, daughters, sisters, and cousins. It is also a persuasive and highly realist spotlight on contemporary India and the women's movements and activism generated there in recent times in response to cataclysmic violence against women.-- "Colorado Review"<br><br>This is a remarkable work that will cause you to think and really push yourself to understand and examine.-- "The Nerdy Girl Express"<br><br><i>Seven</i> is an intimate, gutsy feminist novel that exposes the lasting, individual impacts of making women's bodies fodder for displays of religious obeisance.-- "Foreword Reviews"<br><br><i>Seven</i> presents a messy situation and Doctor skillfully curates the disarray into a rewarding and consistently engaging read.-- "Hamilton Review of Books"<br><br>[An] extraordinary book... packed with discovery and jarring emotional arcs.-- "Toronto Star"<br><br>A brave and beautiful book.-- "Judy Rebick, author of Heroes in My Head"<br><br>A defiant and engrossing novel.-- "Sarah Schulman, author of Conflict is Not Abuse"<br><br>A piece of art... this is an exquisite collector's piece. Add it to your own.-- "NRI Pulse"<br><br>Be prepared for this novel to stay with you for a long time, especially its ending.-- "Globe and Mail"<br><br>Doctor is not afraid to address injustice cloaked as religion in a world filled with the roar of #MeToo.-- "Broadview Magazine"<br><br>Doctor weaves sensitivity and hope into a gripping narrative. [<i>Seven </i>is] a soulfully-written book about a vexed cultural issue.-- "Masooma Ranalvi, founder of WeSpeakOut.org"<br><br>Doctor's writing is clean and readable, and by the novel's end, she has layered all the elements together in a meaningful way. Her novel's willingness to engage readers with this challenging, important subject matter is invaluable.-- "Booklist"<br><br>Family secrets, loyalty, and betrayal lie at the heart of <i>Seven</i>. Delving into history can unearth deeper mysteries than one bargained for.-- "Zarqa Nawaz, author of Laughing All The Way to the Mosque"<br><br>Farzana Doctor is a writer of extraordinary wit, generosity, and ethical commitment; and <i>Seven</i> explores with courage and storytelling finesse the harsh truths within the ideals of kinship and community.-- "David Chariandy, award-winning author of Brother"<br><br>In generously inviting prose, Doctor deftly tackles intergenerational trauma through a distinctly feminist lens.-- "This Magazine"<br><br>In her grand tradition, Farzana Doctor once again pushes us forward with nuanced, layered, inter-generational prose, to bring visibility to an important social issue. An urgent and passionate read.-- "Vivek Shraya, author of The Subtweet"<br><br>Penetrating and subtle, <i>Seven</i> deftly explores loyalty in changing times, what it means and what you give up to be a part of a community, a marriage, and friendships. Sharifa is a sympathetic everywoman; her relationships fully realized and deeply felt in this immersive, absorbing portrait.-- "Eden Robinson, bestselling author of the Trickster trilogy"<br><br>Seven is fully feminist and ambitiously bold; this is an important book for our changing times.-- "Karla J. Strand, Ms. Magazine"<br><br>The different threads of this novel are woven powerfully and culminate in a terrifically moving story.-- "Pickle Me This"<br><br>The feminist novel of the year.-- "Now Magazine"<br><br>Visceral and emotional... a courageous feat.-- "Quill & Quire"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Farzana Doctor is the author of <i>Stealing Nasreen</i>, <i>All Inclusive</i>, and <i>Six Metres of Pavement</i>, which won a Lambda Literary Award and was short-listed for the Toronto Book Award. She lives in Toronto.
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