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Gr 9 Up—Nira is the only child of a strict, lower middle class Guyanese couple living in America with her loving, wise grandmother. Expectations are high, a medical career the only acceptable one, while Nira identifies as a self-taught trumpet player. The postcolonial reality of a heightened generation gap in the family takes the form of sarcasm, which invades most of Nira's early interactions with her parents. They do not support her music, but her grandmother's peaceful presence with a cup of tea mitigat...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Everyone has an idea of who Nira Ghani is. Her parents, Guyanese immigrants of Indian heritage, insist she do "better than your best" in her suburban Canadian high school, then attend medical school and achieve financial success. To her schoolmates, Nira is the "only brown girl" and often mistaken for being African (classmates confuse Guyana with Ghana). Nira keeps her true self a secret: she is a self-taught mu...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Everyone has an idea of who Nira Ghani is. Her parents, Guyanese immigrants of Indian heritage, insist she do "better than your best" in her suburban Canadian high school, then attend medical school and achieve financial success. To her schoolmates, Nira is the "only brown girl" and often mistaken for being African (classmates confuse Guyana with Ghana). Nira keeps her true self a secret: she is a self-taught mu...Log In or Sign Up to Read More