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This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart

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This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart
2020 paperback edition
AuthorMadhur Anand
Audio read by
  • Ellora Patnaik
  • Asha Vijayasingham
  • Raoul Bhaneja
  • Strange Light
Cover artistTerri Nimmo
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish
GenreNon-fiction
PublishedJune 30, 2020
PublisherStrange Light / Penguin Random House Canada
Media type
Pages320
AwardsGovernor General’s Literary Award
ISBN9780771007774
Websitepenguinrandomhouse.ca

This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart: A Memoir in Halves is a nonfiction book written by Canadian author Madhur Anand, and published in June 2020 by Strange Light / Penguin Random House Canada. The memoir is a generational account of three families and was written by Anand to gain a better understanding of her parents. It won the 2020 Governor General's Literary Award for English-language non-fiction.

Backstory

The book is a memoir and an account of three generations of a South Asian Canadian family as told through the lens of history, science, and poetry.[1] Anand wrote it to help her gain a better understanding of her parents.[2]

Synopsis

This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart, is a memoir split into two halves. The first half of the book is the story of a Punjabi couple who immigrated to Canada during Partition, raising their children in mining towns and living in crowded city apartments. The second half, tells the tale of the daughter braving racism and sexism while pursuing a career as a poet and an ecologist.

Awards

This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart received the 2020 Governor General’s Literary Award for English-language non-fiction.[3]

Reception

Anand's book was generally well received. Canadian book reviewer Barb Minett writes in Bookshelf, "Its strange beauty embodies human frailties and resilience."[4] Andreae Callanan in Canadian Notes and Queries commented, "This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart is intimate, elegant, and audacious in its fundamental question of where our stories begin and end."[5]

References

  1. ^ "This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart". CBC Books. February 18, 2020. Archived from the original on August 23, 2021. Retrieved August 24, 2021.
  2. ^ "Madhur Anand's This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart is a look at the past to understand the present". CBC Radio. February 12, 2021. Archived from the original on August 24, 2021. Retrieved August 24, 2021.
  3. ^ "Here are the winners of the 2020 Governor General's Literary Awards". CBC Books. June 1, 2021. Archived from the original on August 26, 2021. Retrieved August 24, 2021.
  4. ^ Minett, Barb (June 28, 2020). "REVIEW: This Red Line Goes Straight To Your Heart". bookshelf.ca. Archived from the original on August 24, 2021. Retrieved August 24, 2021.
  5. ^ "Madhur Anand's This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart by Andreae Callanan". CNQ. January 26, 2021. Archived from the original on August 24, 2021. Retrieved August 24, 2021.

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