Listed on CBC and 49th Shelf’s top picks for fall 2024
Imagine if you went on a dating app and matched with your neighbour? But neither of you are ready to meet just yet…..
In THE ELEVATOR, Ramsingh crafts a poignant portrayal of the weariness of the modern dating world, steeped with missed opportunities, misguided intimacy, and a complex relationship with food. Brimming with vivid sensory details, Ramsingh centers a cast of characters both earnest and vulnerable in this engaging, compulsively readable story.
- Deepa Rajagopalan, Giller shortlisted author for Peacocks of Instagram
The Elevator is a romance for the real world–Aria and Rob share a look and an attraction, but their lives are complicated, and connection doesn’t come easy. The world doesn’t pause for a look, though they–and we–wish it would. The Elevator is a warm, thoughtful, realistic novel of all the things that hold us back from love–everything from trauma and tough parents to bad timing–but also the kind friends, humour, and hamburgers that sustain us in the search for a partner. Love comes for Rob and Aria the way it does for most of us–in the middle of everything else.
- Rebecca Rosenblum, These Days are Numbered, So Much Love
Priya Ramsingh’s superpower as a novelist is the ability to create authentic and empathetic characters. She did it with “Brown Girl in the Room” and now with “The Elevator.” I found myself rooting for Aria and Rob. I cringed as they tried to navigate the world of dating apps, agonized over bad dates and self-doubt and then I eagerly awaited the next chance encounter.
- Scott Colby, best-selling author opinion page editor at the Toronto Star.