Diaspora, Reconstructed
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...moreWhite Castle or McDonald’s? Death always made her hungry.
...moreHer heartbeat is a history folded into a vessel.
...moreThank God music has wings and it can fly wherever, even countries we can’t reach.
...moreI will marry and find love, because this is the closest I have felt in a long time to giving it another try.
...moreHuda Al-Marashi discusses her new memoir, FIRST COMES MARRIAGE.
...moreAirong’s voice was stern, matter-of-fact. “I’m pregnant.”
...moreSJ Sindu discusses her new novel, Marriage of a Thousand Lies, queer readings of Hindu scriptures, and issues of privilege and power.
...moreThis week, in a story by Akhil Sharma that will leave you devastated, an Indian woman in an arranged marriage wakes one day to discover that she loves her husband. “If You Sing Like That for Me,” originally published in the Atlantic in 1995, is available this week at Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading in conjunction with […]
...moreEsmé Weijun Wang discusses her first novel, The Border of Paradise, about a multi-generational new American family, creative expression through writing and photography, and interracial relationships.
...moreRavi Shankar discusses Singaporean poetry in the last fifty years, Hindu mythology, translation, and his complicated relationship to his heritage.
...moreShulem Deen talks about his memoir, All Who Go Do Not Return.
...moreGranta has a stirring excerpt from Maria Choudhuri’s forthcoming memoir Beloved Strangers, about growing up in the capital of Bangladesh and then moving to New York. The excerpt starts to explore the topic of her parents’ arranged marriage and what it meant for her mother to trade in a music career for a domestic life in […]
...moreMy grandparents, Luigi and Elena, were married on February 14th, 1947, in Italy, where there is no such thing as Valentines Day.
...moreMohaned works at a small hotel in Palmyra, a desert town in northeast Syria. On the side, he helps a friend pitch taxi rides to tourists. (Mohaned speaks Arabic and English; his friend speaks only Arabic.) The following is an edited account of our conversation during the three hour taxi journey between Palymra and Damascus.
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