I placed second in Humber Literary Review‘s inaugural Emerging Writers Fiction Contest! I am so delighted. The judge this year is Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, and she said some nice things about my story:

This story—about the traumatic dismay of immigrating—is most notable for the lucidity of the child’s perspective as it blossoms so naturally. The sentence tension and the scattered, sometimes familiar, sometimes disruptive, images in this piece add a layer of delicious strangeness to what we have come to anticipate from immigration narratives.  I especially loved the weirdness of this story’s fractured, matter-of-fact memories and how gracefully Jain articulates her protagonist’s growth.