And as she discovers truths about her husband - both sexual and emotional - her fragile new life in Canada begins to unravel. Tender and compelling, The Immigrant is an honest exploration of a marriage, what it costs to start again - and what we can never leave behind.

Tender and compelling, THE IMMIGRANT is an honest exploration of a marriage, what it costs to start again - and what can never be left behind. When Nina, a thirty-year-old lecturer in New Delhi, agrees to an arranged marriage to Ananda, a recent émigré to Halifax, Canada, she is uncertain: can she give up her home and her country to build a new life with a husband she barely knows? As the two of them adapt to married life, Nina discovers truths about her husband - both sexual and emotional - and her fragile new life in Canada begins to unravel.