enough
you can’t win a race you’re kept from running.
a provocative corporate drama
Set amid the cubicles and courtyards of Toronto City Hall, Kimia Eslah’s third novel centres on three women of colour navigating labyrinths at work, in love and in life. Faiza Hosseini is a cutthroat executive with a proven record — she knows she’s enough, but can she circumvent the old boys’ club? Sameera Jahani is passionate about equity but her girlfriend isn’t — can she bridge this gap, or has she had enough? Goldie Sheer has triumphantly landed her first job, but unexpected work drama makes her question — is she really enough? You don’t want to miss this provocative corporate drama, staring women of colour!
Eslah’s
characters have weight, depth, and ambition… Ambitious women supporting each other in the
workplace — more books like this, please.
– Carrie Snyder, author of Girl Runner and Francie’s Got a Gun
Trying to change the system from within? Kimia Eslah shows how it’s done in this no-bullshit novel as she yanks the lid off a workplace of endless meetings and deeply gendered racism… Enough is more than enough!
sister seen, sister heard
Farah was pushed to the ground but she refused to stay down
a gripping coming-of-age story
Farah’s ready to move out of her parent’s house. It takes an hour to get to campus, and she has no freedom to be herself. Maiheen and Mostafa, first-generation Iranian immigrants in Toronto, find their younger daughter’s brash ways disappointing and embarrassing, and they wonder why Farah can’t be like her older sister Farzana — though Farah knows things about Farzana that her parents don’t. They begrudgingly agree to let Farah move, and she begins to explore her exciting new life as an independent university student. But when Farah gets assaulted on campus, everything changes.
The Daughter Who Walked Away
Taraneh survived her childhood but she still fears her parents
a family saga of addiction and dysfunction
Estranged from her abusive parents as a teenager, Taraneh Pourani overcame poverty, isolation and self-hatred to build a happy home with her loving husband and children. Triggered by her young sons’ annual visit with their grandparents, Taraneh becomes psychologically distressed. She begins to doubt her memories and question her decision to remain distanced from her aging parents.
