“The Wedding feels like drinking a comforting cup of masala chai—not the pretentious ‘chai tea latte’ stuff: the real Indian stuff, with its nuanced notes of ginger and cardamom. Equal parts layered and entertaining, this breezy read takes you up close to one big, tight-knit Sikh community in Surrey, BC. Chapter by chapter, it ropes you into a theatrical and complex family dynamic. Free of the clichés and cultural voyeurism that often plague South Asian diaspora tales, Gurjinder Basran’s fiction serves up the many flavours of the Indo-Canadian experience without dilution. You just have to RSVP to get a taste.”

“The Wedding invites readers behind the scenes of your not-so-typical Indian wedding: sometimes delightful, sometimes salacious and always fraught with familial intrigue. A richly textured, wonderfully imagined novel, The Wedding evokes an entire Vancouver community as its protagonist, a cast of characters so real they leap off the page, and whose lives, loves, and heartbreaks are entwined with one another for better or worse. Gurjinder Basran offers an astute insight into the human psyche and an intimate look at the intricacies of love and family. This, and her beautiful, whip-smart prose make this a highly engrossing and un-put-down-able read. I loved every minute of it.”