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  • Book Therapy: Help! I’m Alive
    Book Therapy: Help! I’m Alive
    August 05, 2022

    Book Therapy: Help! I’m Alive

    “Usually the isolation is a result of some life trauma. Does your brother have trauma?”“Fuck, I don’t know. Who doesn’t have trauma?”—Gurjinder Basran, Help! I’m Alive Lately I can’t ...

  • "We Make Our Own Meaning" Gurjinder Basran on Her Novel of Loss, Community, and Navigating the Unknown
    "We Make Our Own Meaning" Gurjinder Basran on Her Novel of Loss, Community, and Navigating the Unknown
    July 28, 2022

    "We Make Our Own Meaning" Gurjinder Basran on Her Novel of Loss, Community, and Navigating the Unknown

    A brief video nearly tears a small community outside Vancouver apart in award-winning author Gurjinder Basran's new novel, Help! I'm Alive (ECW Press). After footage of teenager Jay's death is posted ...

  • “I think suffering shows us who we truly are.” - Q&A with Gurjinder Basran
    “I think suffering shows us who we truly are.” - Q&A with Gurjinder Basran
    August 30, 2017

    “I think suffering shows us who we truly are.” - Q&A with Gurjinder Basran

    A Q&A with Gurjinder Basran, author of Someone You Love is GoneIn 2010, debut novelist Gurjinder Basran won the Search for the Great BC Novel Contest, and the following year took home the Ethel Wilson ...

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