9/23/2023 0 Comments Lovely writer novel authorThe book I am currently reading The Stone House by Yara Hawari and American Fictionary by Dubravka Ugrešić I love the voices of both these writers, their observational power and what they have to say. La Tercera, her novel inspired by her mother, was recently published. Apostol is a uniquely funny, humane and wise writer, a deeply generous person and mentor to many. The book I discovered later in life Gina Apostol’s Insurrecto. Now I can’t read it without finding its combination of erotica and orientalism painful. The book I could never read again Anaïs Nin’s A Spy in the House of Love, which I read a lot in my late teens. The book I reread King Lear, which I first read at 16 and returned to over and over there’s possibly no other text, apart from the Mahabharata, which contains the Bhagavad Gita, that I’ve read so often – it’s made me think so much about time, language, ethics, feminism and how to live in the world. Ellis’s book offered a genealogy for “alpha” masculinity, popular cultural references and a voice that could critique society. I avoided it on publication, but eventually read it when I was writing a particular character in my first novel. The book I came back to Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho. Three years later, I enrolled in an evening class in creative writing, to see if there was anything there. I remember reading my name and knew I wanted to be like her: a writer. When I was three, she dedicated her New Indian Cookery to me and my sister. She arrived in Britain knowing no one, and despite the odds, she went on to publish eight books. The book that made me want to be a writer My mother was the pioneering Indian cookery writer and food entrepreneur Meera Taneja. To my shame, it gave those stories validity because I’d never before heard that history spoken of in places of formal authority, such as school. I was about 12 when I picked it up and it backed up the stories my mother and aunts had told me about partition and what our family had left behind when the line was drawn. The writer who changed my mind Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children was on my parents’ bookshelves from before I could read. I discovered Gina Apostol’s Insurrecto later in life – she is a uniquely funny, humane and wise writer It’s an unforgettable stream of consciousness. Andrea Dworkin’s Mercy evokes the experiences of a young woman who has been repeatedly raped since childhood. Urvashi Butalia’s The Other Side of Silence is an oral history about what happened to many Sikh women during partition in 1947. The book that changed me as a teenager Two books I read at 16 opened my eyes to what you can write about.
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