Balli Kaur Jaswal reads a letter to her son about the first home she lived in.

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