TORCH: My American Playground
I left the car by the roadside and ran up the slope, in tears now, reaching the picnic tables and swings and, as bright and vivid as in my dreams, my purple-shaped climbing frame, exactly as I remembered it.
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Rajeev Balasubramanyam
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Rajeev Balasubramanyam is the author of In Beautiful Disguises, The Dreamer, and Starstruck, and the winner of the Clarissa Luard Prize 2004 for the best British writer under 35. He writes regularly for VICE, The New Statesman, the London Review of Books and others, and his short fiction has recently featured in McSweeney's, the Paris Review, and the Missouri Review, which published the opening of his latest novel, Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss. Follow him on twitter @Rajeevbalasu.
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