INTERVIEW – Fanna for Books

“Sometimes we are not extraordinary in a way that is easily visible to everyone or ourselves…that doesn’t mean we don’t matter.”

Robin Wasley’s debut novel is a darkly atmospheric and sweepingly romantic novel, and said to be everything wittingly funny to purely heartfelt. Set in a small town with long-suppressed magic manifesting as rainbowlike ghosts, a young Korean adoptee fights zombies to find her missing brother. This creates a story that explores both found family and…

“I wanted to tell a version where [Kaikeyi’s] actions were not motivated by spur of the moment jealousy, but rather decisions based on her life experiences.”

Q/A with Vaishnavi Patel, author of Kaikeyi, on reimagining the life of an infamous queen from a Hindu epic, giving voice to a female perspective, and exploring motherhood and destiny in her debut.