Tag: diaspora author

• Carolyn Huynh (The Fortunes of Jaded Women) Recommends Five Asian Books That Explore A Mother-Daughter Dynamic

  

• “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.”

  

• “Writing about grief is supposed to be difficult, but…it was ready to be told. All the love I have for my dad and watching his struggle with cancer, it wanted to be on the page.”

• Maya Prasad Shares The Recipe For Romance: A Charm Spell & Also Recommends Rom-Com Books

• “There have definitely been ups and downs, but I always remind myself that first and foremost, [writing] has to bring me joy in order to keep doing it”

• 110 Fiction Books by Asian & Pacific Islander Authors

  

• Salma Hussain Recommends Twelve Canadian Writers Creating Stories Around Muslim Characters

• “If dark academia is meant to be about the darkness of academia…what is darker than structural or institutional racism?”

• “It has been a pleasure to craft…an embrace of warmth and acceptance around a young brown girl”

• “I hope that young queer Muslim readers understand that you’re perfect just the way you feel”

• “As an adult they seem incongruous, but as children we knew seemingly opposite things can co-exist…as long as we made the space”

• “Both [my] characters soon come to realise that, like everything that ascends, they must come down eventually where their problems still remain”

• “As a writer, I believe it’s extremely important to try and create, as much as possible, diverse stories about a community”

• “I wanted a brown kid at the center, the protagonist of her own life, abolishing the misconstructions society has of Desis and Muslims”

• “I wanted to explore Aafiyah’s denial, acceptance, and guilt…but also show that she is much more than a bad habit”

• “Faith is not a static thing; it may ebb and flow, and I attempted to illustrate the same fluctuations”

• “I honestly don’t think it’s possible for me to write a story that doesn’t have a healthy dose of family drama”

• “The shape of the trauma may be different, but the taste of tears on their tongue is the same”

• “An Urdu phrase I loved including was ‘aaj jaane ki zidd na karo,’ which…loosely translates to: today, don’t insist on leaving”