Madhur Anand

Madhur Anand is a poet and professor of ecology at the University of Guelph. She isthe author of the A New Index for Predicting Catastrophesand This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart,which won the 2020 Governor General's Literary Award for nonfiction.

This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heartuses both poetry and scienceto explore how Anand grew up in Canada and how she was influencedbyher family's traumas, values and lived experiences. The bookweaves all these narratives together to tell a single story about truth, resilience, adaptation and love.

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Books by Madhur Anand

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Madhur Anand on her experimental memoir, This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart: A Memoir in Halves.