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When I write short stories, what really appeals to me is that ability to concentrate and compress. There's something about that that's very satisfying to me.
My parents are from Calcutta, and so I was connected to Calcutta from a young age through them. My parents are really the embodiment of that place, of the culture, of the language,
. . .of the food we ate, of everything. They kept it alive for me. One story that I've written, I really felt like I was trying to capture my father. A story called the Third and Final Continent. And that
. . .story really was an attempt to trace a certain trajectory in his life. Of a rival in the United States. Both my husband and I were both very committed to exposing our children to other parts of
. . .world, other ways of life. Just to see the world and see that it's not one thing, or one way, and that this is reality.