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The Haunting Undercurrent of Grief in “Meet Us by the Roaring Sea” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsAugust 22, 2022 by Malavika Praseed

[ad_1] In her 2018 short story collection Half Gods, Akil Kumarasamy drew upon both the imagined and the real in her intricately crafted tales of the Sri Lankan diaspora, whose characters were haunted by the impact of the Tamil genocide. In Meet Us by the Roaring Sea, her debut novel, we feel the same hauntedness … Read more

A Tapestry of War and Diaspora In “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsJuly 25, 2022 by Farooq Chaudhry

[ad_1] The feeling of being haunted has a way of collapsing one’s sense of direction and space. The presence of something blankets the world like mist, lingering, but impossible to locate. The feeling is inevitably followed by the question, “is it all in my head?” Maybe I’m projecting the rumblings of my psyche out into … Read more