New short story, “Little Red Schoolhouse,” is out, following the same family as Kantika
One of the biggest challenges of writing my novel Kantika, with its story inspired by my endlessly unfurling family history, was figuring out where to begin and where to end. At one point, I had a chapter set in 1957 New York about my mom’s (true!) battle—as an idealistic, knowledge-seeking college student, the left-leaning child … Read more