Sugarbread
2016
First Published
4.03
Average Rating
280
Number of Pages
Shortlisted for the 2018 Singapore Literature Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for the 2017 Singapore Book Award for Fiction Finalist for the 2015 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Pin must not become like her mother, but nobody will tell her why. She seeks clues in Ma’s cooking when she’s not fighting other battles—being a bursary girl at an elite school and facing racial taunts from the bus uncle. Then her meddlesome grandmother moves in, installing a portrait of a watchful Sikh guru and a new set of house rules. Old secrets begin to surface but can Pin handle learning the truth?
Avg Rating
4.03
Number of Ratings
1,318
5 STARS
32%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
20%
2 STARS
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1 STARS
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Author
Balli Kaur Jaswal
Author · 6 books
Balli Kaur Jaswal's latest novel is The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters (Harper Collins/William Morrow). Her previous novels include Inheritance, which won the Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Novelist Award, and Sugarbread, a finalist for the Epigram Books Fiction Prize and the Singapore Literature Prize. Her third novel Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows was translated into 15 languages and chosen by Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine book club.
