SYNOPSIS

Damani is a South Asian taxi driver for a ride-share app who lives in Toronto. Her father died six months ago and she barely sleeps as she picks up every job going, desperate to support her severely depressed mother.

The streets are alive with protests against injustice, but Damani feels like a background character in her own life. She struggles to make ends meet while feeling utterly broken emotionally.

But when she meets beautiful, brave and brilliant Jolene, Damani cannot deny the intense connection between them and finally feels like she’s come back to life.

However, despite Jolene’s passionately declared activism and bold claims about being an ally, Jolene is still a wealthy white woman who will never truly understand where Damani comes from. It’s superb on race, equality, privilege and grief. Funny, angry, and beautifully narrated; a compulsive page-turner.  

Your Driver is Waiting by Priya Guns is published by Atlantic, 320pp