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Priya Ramsingh

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Born

Trinidad and Tobago

Website

http://www.priyaramsingh.ca

Genre

Fiction, Contemporary

Influences

Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood

Member Since

September 2017

URL

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When I was growing up, my mother enforced a rule in our house that Saturday trips to the local public library were mandatory. Although she wasn't an academic herself, she had the insight to push us into loving literature.

My brother, sister and I would walk down the street to the Albion Public Library and choose books for the week. I found myself absorbed in the stories. It spurred my own craft, and when I wasn't reading I was behind closed doors, in my room writing.

When my Grade 5 teacher gave me a certificate for story writing, I realized who I wanted to be.

It took me a long time, but I needed to live before I could write. One day, I sat down in front of my computer, and Brown Girl in the Room, came to life.

My first short story, Pies for ...more

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Average rating: 3.44 · 80 ratings · 44 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Elevator 3.04 avg rating — 53 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brown Girl in the Room 4.22 avg rating — 27 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Middle Aged Boys and Girls is an entertaining and enlightening collection of short stories that explores the lives of girls and women and their complicated relationships with men, women, themselves. Each story is told in first person through the eyes ...more
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This is a complex piece of art. Very well written with so many gems that spark a memory, a trigger, a thought. Each character is introduced chapter by chapter until their connections become clear. People doing their best to live their lives through a ...more
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Priya Ramsingh liked Diane Bracuk's review of The Elevator: "Real life romance rarely follows a fairy tale formula, and neither does the plot of “The Elevator”, Priya Ramsingh’s second novel. With warmth and wit, she delves into the messy, complicated world of love between two people from different cultural ba" Read more of this review »
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