New Delhi, April 4 -- Lindsay Pereira's new novel, Super, revisits the subject of one of the short stories from his previous collection, Songs Our Bodies Sing, published last year. In If You Don't Weaken, two Sikh men-both of them immigrants from Punjab-rent a basement of a house belonging to a white couple in Canada. One of these men is in the country on a student visa, but working at the Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons instead of studying, to make ends meet. His roommate is a truck driver who, nearly a decade after his arrival in Canada, has nothing to write home about. The unremitting hopelessness of their situation gets to the reader, until a fresh tragedy, ironically, brings them close to their landlord, who, thus far, had expresse...