This posthumous publication is Gill’s tribute to India and Canada--her two beloved homelands--and offers a mixture of smells, tastes and textures: the steam of hot rotis rising from metal lunchboxes at the mill; the lush flesh of mango offered by a gentle grandfather; and the sensual feeling of a silk sari.

Gill’s highly acclaimed first book, Dharma Rasa (Nightwood Editions, 1999), received a BC Book Award in 2000 and, in 2005, she was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters from the University College of the Fraser Valley. She taught at UBC, SFU, and at the University College of the Fraser Valley, and she served as the president of the Immigrant and Visible Minority Women of BC. She also spent time on the boards of the Vancouver YWCA and the Vancouver Chief Constable’s Diversity Advisory Committee. For more information regarding this afternoon of tribute please contact Vici Johnstone at vici@caitlin-press.com.

 

 

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