The Desirable Sister

by Taslim Burkowicz

Gia and Serena Pirji are sisters, but as the first-generation born in Canada to immigrant parents, their lives play out in different ways because of their skin tone. Gia's fair skin grants her membership to cliques of white kids as a teen, while Serena's dark skin means she is labelled as Indian and treated as inferior. This superficial difference, imposed by a society obsessed with skin colour and hierarchy, sets the sisters into a dynamic that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1773632329
• ISBN13: 9781773632322
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Roseway Publishing
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"