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 type of progression?
I didn’t choose a progression for this collection. This is a mosaic depicting lives of women in different cultures thrown into different situations, living through different stages of relationships. Each story is a swatch in the quilt, sometimes two or three with a similar hue, based on common themes—childlessness, gender discrimination, marriage, desire, abandonment, motherhood—stitched next to each other.
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