Balli Kaur Jaswal Books in Order

After teenage Amrit briefly disappears, she returns changed, unsettling her Punjabi Sikh family in Singapore. Over the following decades, their private struggles unfold alongside the nation’s transformation, exposing tensions between inherited expectations and individual identity.

Young Pin searches for clues in her mother’s cooking while facing class differences at school and racial hostility outside it. When her grandmother moves into the household, new rules and emerging secrets force Pin to reconsider her family.

Nikki takes a writing-teacher job in London and discovers that her Punjabi widow students have vivid stories to share. Their secret creative community grows, but revelations about a young woman’s death expose them to dangerous scrutiny.

Three estranged Punjabi sisters travel to India to fulfill their dying mother’s wish and carry out her final rites. As personal crises and family secrets surface, the pilgrimage forces them to reconsider their relationships with one another.

Three Filipina domestic workers in Singapore join forces after another maid is accused of murdering her employer. Drawing on the secrets they observe in wealthy households, they investigate a case that exposes the precariousness of their own lives.