V. V. Ganeshananthan

V. V. Ganeshananthan teaches creative writing at the University of Michigan. Love Marriage, her first novel, appeared in 2008.

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‘Shobasakthi is also known as Anthony X; he is an ex-militant; he is an expatriate.’

‘I realize it is my fault: whenever I live in any country, everything turns wrong. I see it as a gift.’

‘It is a way of humiliating people, to say that their dead are not dead, to say that people are not even allowed to mourn.’

‘Pain informs. Pain draws a map. Doctors resolve to relieve pain, but pain is information, and to lose it is to lose something valuable.’