Felicia Mihali writes: "I would like this novel to be read as a universal story about little girls born in small and poor villages around the world who are not as lucky as those born in big cities and in good families. These are girls who have to struggle to succeed, to fight their own complexes and their shame over not being more fortunate. For many of them their only escape is through the imagination."

Felicia Mihali is a Montreal writer, translator and Éditions Hashtag publisher who studies French, English, Chinese and Dutch along with postcolonial literature and history. Her first novel, Le pays du fromage, was published in 2002 by XYZ Éditeur, followed by six other works written in French. In 2012, she published her first book in English, The Darling of Kandahar (LLP), which was nominated for Canada Reads as one the year's best novels. The must-read 2021 novel Pineapple Kisses in Iqaluit appeared simultaneously in French as Une nuit d’amour à Iqaluit, and Judith Weisz Woodsworth's translation of Le pays du fromage was published as A Ramshackle Home (LLP, 2023) and became a CBC Books top 40 title.

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