A Place
we fell in love with and made our home, a place where crabs crawled up to the porch as we sat in bamboo chairs, sipping our morning chai, inhaling the… Read more »
we fell in love with and made our home, a place where crabs crawled up to the porch as we sat in bamboo chairs, sipping our morning chai, inhaling the… Read more »
This is a cross-cultural collection: some of the stories are very American in feel and some very Indian, both in terms of their cultural elements and settings, USA and the… Read more »
ABP- Hello Sara. Thank you for taking this interview. This past October, ABP was lucky to be able to publish your short story collection Morsels of Purple. What can you tell us… Read more »
In “The Goat in the Math Problem,” what might the area of grass the goat is tethered to represent? I thought I had a pretty good idea toward the beginning… Read more »
Morsels of Purple is quite an achievement, with 54 flash pieces chronicling the life of an Indian woman in America. Did you have in mind a specific narrative arc or other… Read more »
What is your earliest recollection of the desire to write? My son brought writing to my life. One morning, he said bye to me happily when I dropped him off… Read more »
Q1: When did you start writing and first influences? Sara: My son brought writing to my life. One morning, he said bye to me happily when I dropped him off… Read more »
What inspired the story “The Morning Chai”? While making a cup of ginger chai one morning, I thought about how I like to drink my beverage scalding hot while most… Read more »
The Fifth Anniversary After the guests leave and taillights fade, the unspoken hostility stays in the room, grown toolarge for the two of us. You insisted on the fifth-anniversary party… Read more »
A cup of water at a rolling boil, a teaspoon of Assam tea leaves, lower the heat, add some milk to temper the theine. No instants for me. Not for… Read more »