Identity & Belonging

Explorations of self, belonging, and what it means to find your place.

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A New Kind of Clean

A New Kind of Clean

Missy Djalo has spent years chasing her dream of becoming an actress, enduring failed auditions and struggling to escape the shadow of her fractured relationship with her Cameroonian mother. Broke and desperate, she receives an unexpected opportunity to audition for a mysterious company called Air Free. Welcomed into a beautiful house by a charismatic couple, Missy soon realises that the audition is unlike anything she has experienced before. As reality and fantasy begin to blur, she faces an unsettling question: how much of herself must she sacrifice to become the person she longs to be? A surreal, unsettling tale of ambition, memory, and identity, this philosophical horror explores the frightening possibility that achieving your dreams might mean losing yourself.

Brown Girls, Grown Up

Brown Girls, Grown Up

What happens when you grow up between cultures, build a life of your own, and still struggle to feel that you belong? In this intimate, witty collection of stories, Sima Qadeer explores the lives of South Asian women navigating marriage, motherhood, sexuality, faith, and the expectations of family and society. From a middle-aged woman who discovers the freedom of an unexpected friendship to a mother seeking to reconnect her children with their Muslim heritage, these characters confront the compromises they have made and the selves they have kept hidden. Tender, irreverent, and sharply observant, the collection explores the lifelong journey toward self-acceptance and the courage to belong without abandoning who you are.

Land of No Regrets

Land of No Regrets

At an Islamic boarding school in rural Ontario, four teenage boys navigate the boundaries between faith, friendship, and freedom. When they stumble upon the diary of a girl who attended the school decades earlier, her words awaken new possibilities and inspire a daring plan to escape. As their secret grows, each boy must confront his own beliefs, desires, and fears about the world beyond the school gates. Blending humour with tenderness, Land of No Regrets explores the challenges of growing up between tradition and independence, asking what it means to belong to a community while finding the courage to forge your own path.

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