"I laughed and cried as I read Six Metres of Pavement and followed Ismail and Celia -- endearing, brave, and foolish characters who have to live with the irreparable and irreversible. Farzana Doctor blends cross-cultural empathy with wisdom, and shows us paths to wholeness. Read this delightful, warm guide to remaking and choosing your family." -- Shauna Singh Baldwin, author of What the Body Remembers, The Tiger Claw and We Are Not in Pakistan "Ismail Boxwala, an ultimately good man haunted by a horrible mistake, provides the focal point of Doctor's moving second novel in which she examines with crystalline clarity the plight of this gentle, middle-aged Indian immigrant living in Toronto." "If you're looking for believable characters, look no further than Farzana Doctor's fiction. She has a gift for reality-based situations and conveys anxiety and passion in a story that turns into a real page-turner." ".the characters are refreshingly genuine.

Throughout, Doctor skillfully plays with concepts of motion, migration and movement, both physical and emotional." "Novels don't often spring sudden tears from me. This story did it several times, and never with tawdry tugs at the heartstrings. The book cuts deep, to the core of love, universal need and our responsibility to others." "Toronto writer Farzana Doctor's second novel is a sensitively written story about the complexities of human relationships, with the added twist of the immigrant experience. A warmly felt portrait of an unusual but successful remaking of a family." "It's heartfelt work about characters who come to treat their worst scars with due respect and who learn to abide in chosen families who love them. It speaks with a compassionate voice to a truth that surrounds us.

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