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Balli Kaur Jaswal

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in Singapore

July 20

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Contemporary, Fiction, Humor and Comedy

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February 2008

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Balli Kaur Jaswal's latest novel is The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters (Harper Collins/William Morrow). Her previous novels include Inheritance, which won the Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Novelist Award, and Sugarbread, a finalist for the Epigram Books Fiction Prize and the Singapore Literature Prize. Her third novel Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows was translated into 15 languages and chosen by Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine book club. ...more

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Average rating: 3.91 · 141,646 ratings · 15,612 reviews · 19 distinct works • Similar authors

	Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows 3.93 avg rating — 114,751 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters 3.79 avg rating — 17,861 ratings — published 2019 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Now You See Us 3.73 avg rating — 5,550 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sugarbread 4.01 avg rating — 1,537 ratings — published 2016 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Inheritance 3.98 avg rating — 1,314 ratings — published 2013 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Five by Balli Kaur Jaswal (Goodreads Author) (Guest Editor), Jason Erik Lundberg (Goodreads Author) (Series Editor), Yu-Mei Balasingamchow (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.81 avg rating — 21 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ahora sí nos ven really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unpronounceables 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Les incroyables aventures des sœurs Shergill 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le club des veuves qui aimaient la littérature érotique by Balli Kaur Jaswal (Goodreads Author), Guillaume-Jean Milan (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I saw it a few years ago in a bookshop but didn’t buy it.’ ‘I hate it when that happens. Book regret. You come across something and think, I don’t want that, and later, you’re obsessed with getting it and it’s no longer available.”
― Balli Kaur Jaswal, Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

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“You can separate the idiots from the bloody idiots.”
― Balli Kaur Jaswal, Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

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“In traditional Indian morality tales, wayward children were the primary cause of heart conditions, cancerous lumps, hair loss and other ailments in their aggrieved parents.”
― Balli Kaur Jaswal, Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

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Polls

July BoTM Nominations ~ "Hello Sunshine- Reese Witherspoon's Book Club Picks" ~ Final Poll

The Sanatorium

by Sarah Pearse

12 votes, 38.7%

The Scent Keeper

by Erica Bauermeister

5 votes, 16.1%

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

by Balli Kaur Jaswal

5 votes, 16.1%

This Is How It Always Is

by Laurie Frankel

4 votes, 12.9%

Whisper Network

by Chandler Baker

3 votes, 9.7%

The Chicken Sisters

by K.J. Dell'Antonia

2 votes, 6.5%

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