ABSTRACT
This chapter reads Ausma Zehanat Khan’s Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty series (2015–present) as presenting a series of productive avenues for thinking through the challenges and affordances of multiculturalism and globalism in Canada. Using a classic detective duo, Khan centers many different kinds of love as she explores real-world global crises within the frame of individual murder mysteries. Khattak and Getty show the benefits of working across different cultural backgrounds and experiences as Khan’s stories explore individual and cultural traumas through a Canadian lens that deliberately leaves the United States out of representations of global problems in order to engage readers in thinking hopefully about how Canada might be a positive player on the global stage.
