{"id":63847,"date":"2022-11-27T03:06:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T03:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63847"},"modified":"2022-11-27T03:09:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T03:09:00","slug":"ruby-red-skies-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63847","title":{"rendered":"Ruby Red Skies,\u00a0A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ruby Red Skies,\u00a0A Novel<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Roseway Publishing<\/a> (an imprint of Fernwood Publishing<\/a>)
\nOctober 2022
\n272 pages
\n8.5 x 5.5 in
\nPaperback ISBN: 9781773635606<\/p>\n

Taslim Burkowicz<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Ruby used to be a fiery, sexy, musical genius. But when she got pregnant as a teenager in the 90s, her life took a turn into banality. Now a middle-aged Indo-Canadian woman, she feels unseen and unheard by her white husband and struggles to communicate with her mixed-race daughter. When she discovers her husband cheating, she embarks on a quest to unearth exciting secrets from her past. To find what she needs, she drives straight into B.C.\u2019s<\/a> raging wildfires, accompanied only by the fantastical stories her mother used to tell about their ancient Moghul ancestry \u2014 a dancer named Rubina who lived in the concubine quarters of the great Red Fort<\/a>. This book is at once historical fiction and political romance, deftly navigating themes of mixed-race relationships, climate change, motherhood, body shame, death and the passage of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This book is at once historical fiction and political romance, deftly navigating themes of mixed-race relationships, climate change, motherhood, body shame, death and the passage of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11,19,8,15],"tags":[30100,30098,33531],"class_list":["post-63847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-books","category-canada","category-media-archive","category-novels","tag-fernwood-publishing","tag-roseway-publishing","tag-taslim-burkowicz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63847"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63850,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63847\/revisions\/63850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}