When You Ask Me Where I'm Going

A unique collection of poetry, illustrations, and prose, “When You Ask Me Where I’m Going” presents engaging and thought-provoking themes and broaches issues around identity, feminism, racism, and equality. A narrative embedded in poems and images, author Jasmin Kaur, blends the story about South Asian immigrant women in Canada via various mediums that lend themselves to exploring language and imagery in a senior-level classroom. Mature and complex themes can be examined in a realistic and relatable way, and students may be encouraged to explore the challenges immigrants face when living in Canada. Appropriate for whole-class instruction, literature circles or independent reading, the story’s diverse forms of writing and style may encourage explorations of point of view, voice, style, and other forms of English writing.