The Boat People by Sharon Bala

Available at West Vancouver Memorial Library in Book, eBook, Kindle, and eAudiobook formats.

Summary and Review. "The Boat People is an extraordinary novel about a group of refugees who survive a perilous ocean voyage only to face the threat of deportation amid accusations of terrorism."

Review by Ru Freeman. "Seeking Asylum but Finding Heartbreak"

Reading Guide. "The Boat People is gripping, page-turning, and morally complex novel about a group of refugees who survive a perilous ocean voyage to reach Canada"

Review by Anjalika Samrasekera. "The Survival of Arrival: A Review of Sharon Bala’s The Boat People"

“Exhaustion whenever he thought of the future; terror when he remembered the past.”

Author's Website. "Her bestselling debut novel, The Boat People, won the 2019 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction"

Interview with Sharon Bala by Shanelle Kandiah.

Review by David Chau. "Sharon Bala's Boat People haunted by enigmas of arrival"