Janika Oza
Janika Oza is the author of the novel A History of Burning, winner of the 2024 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, a finalist for the 2023 Governor General's Award for Fiction, a finalist for the 2024 Carol Shield’s Prize, and a New York Times Editor’s Choice. She is the winner of a 2022 O. Henry Award and the 2020 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Award.
Janika was a 2023 Bread Loaf Fiction Fellow and has received support from The Millay Colony, the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Canada Council for the Arts. She is an assistant editor for The Rumpus and lives in Toronto.
(source: author’s website)
Canada
India, 1898. Pirbhai is the thirteen-year-old breadwinner for his family when he steps into a dhow on the promise of work, only to be taken across the ocean to labour on the East African Railway for the British. A profoundly moving debut novel spanning India, Uganda, England, and Canada, about how one act of survival reverberates across generations of a family and their search for a place of their own.
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