Home of the Floating Lily

For readers of Jhumpa Lahiri, Souvankham Thammavongsa, and Catherine Hernandez, this mesmerizing debut story collection focuses on the lives of immigrant women from Bangladesh living in Toronto's Crescent Town The short story collection is set both in Canada and Bangladesh, and most of the stories are set in the Scarborough-East York area, close to the Danforth and Victoria Park intersection which has a large Bangladeshi immigrant population Author is a lawyer whose practice focuses on the intersection of immigration and women’s issues