“This powerful book asks what it means to survive and come of age amid migrations, separations, social fracture, and the shifting realities of life in postcolonial, neoliberal India.”
— Inderpal Grewal
“If you’re performing someone else’s script rather than living your own life, don’t miss this book... You’ll come away strengthened to follow Sikh teachings that refuse harmful customs based on blind obedience in favor of compassion.”
— Shauna Singh Baldwin
“A brave reckoning with patriarchy and the making of masculinity.... Read this book to imagine liberated ways of being with one another, grounded in love above all.”
— Valarie Kaur
“This is autoethnography at its most eloquent, its most significant, its most essential. Gill’s deeply felt analysis of the violence and sorrow of patriarchy helps us to envision an anthropology of freedom.”
— Ruth Behar
“An analytically precise and intimately wrought account of contemporary economic and psychic transformations of patriarchal domination in Indian Punjab and in its diasporas.”
— Lawrence Cohen
“Bold, provocative, and eloquently written... Gill provides a compelling and often harrowing look at the cultural, societal and sexual attitudes that govern life in present-day Indian Punjab.”
— Manil Suri
“ A poignant ode to the possibility of another way to live and love.. Gill writes with courage and conviction, weaving a gripping personal story together with keenly observed social and political history.”
— Anand Pandian
“With verve, intimacy, and insight, Gill takes us on a tour of “Macholand,” a globalized Punjabi landscape of arranged marriages, patriarchal family, and caste-bound kinship.”
— Roger Lancaster
“Coming of Age in Macholand is a powerful, intimate, and deeply moving account of Punjabi masculinity... A major contribution to the field of Sikh and Punjab studies.”
