Kimia Eslah

You can't win a race you’re kept from running. 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’...

Farah's ready to move out of her parents’ 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 "Canadian" ways disappointing and embarrassing, and they wonder why Farah can't be like her older sister, Farzana—though Farah knows things about Farzana that...