Gurjinder Basran

Everything Was Good-bye centers around Meena, a young Indo Canadian woman growing up in the lower mainland of British Columbia and traces her life as she struggles to assert her independence in a Punjabi community. Raised by her tradition bound widowed mother, Meena knows the freedoms of her Canadian peers can never be hers, but unlike her sisters, she is reluctant to submit to a life that is defined by a suitable marriage. Though a narrative moving between race and culture, it is ultimately a story of love, loss and self acceptance amidst shifting cultural ideals.

Everything Was Good-bye was the winner of the 2011 Ethel Wilson Fiction Award for most outstanding fiction by a BC Author.

Gurjinder Basran’s debut novel, Everything Was Good-bye, was the winner of the Search for the Great BC Novel Contest in 2010 and won the 2011 BC Book Prize - The Ethel Wilson Fiction Award for most outstanding fiction. As a manuscript, Everything Was Good-bye was for Amazon.com's 2008 Breakthrough Novel Award and earned her a place in The Vancouver Sun's annual speculative arts and culture article "One's to Watch." Gurjinder lives in Delta, BC with her husband and two sons.