Oddly, I feel more protected when I write in Italian, even though I'm also more exposed.

My parents came from Calcutta. They arrived in Cambridge, much like the parents in my novel. And I found myself sort of caught between the world of my parents and the world they had left behind and still clung to, and also the world that surrounded me at school and everywhere else, as soon as I set foot out the door.

I think it's the small things, the smaller episodes and details that I linger on and try to draw meaning from, just personally.

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