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I love Rome. I'm very happy there. I wasn't in New York.

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A lot of my personality was informed by feeling very different in the world I grew up in, feeling that I didn't fully belong, that my parents didn't belong.

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Almost any American can connect on some level to a family background of having come across some ocean. They say, 'My great-grandparents came from wherever... this is why we have this last name, why we do this thing at Christmas.' All the details get watered down but don't quite disappear.

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It's hard to think of myself as an American, and yet I am not from India, a place where I was not born and where I have never lived.

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As a child, I felt that the Indian part of me was unacknowledged, and therefore somehow negated, by my American environment and vice versa. Growing up, I was impatient with my parents for being so different, holding on to India the way they did, and always making me feel like I had to make a choice of which way I would go.

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When I write in Italian - this is just the metaphor that came to me immediately, and I really think this is what it is - I feel like I'm writing with my left hand. Because of that weakness, there is this enormous freedom that comes with it.

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I feel as though I've gotten to a point where I don't really want to set a book in any real place ever again.

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Part of my whole project from the beginning was to make an absent world present for my parents, which was India.

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Identity has been such an explosive territory for me... so hard, so painful at times.

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My parents' relationship with Kolkata is so strong. Growing up, the absence of Kolkata was always present in our lives.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 11th, 1967

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