"I think multiple realities exist. Most colonised countries had their cosmology, their ontology, their metaphysics col…"

"…I read literally everything I could get my hands on – the shampoo bottle, the cereal box. My mom didn’t let us have …"

"…The novel is autobiographical, so I used my life as a chronological skeleton for the story, which meant revisiting a…"

"…Whenever you write something biographical, everyone in your family doesn’t share the same memory. So your version of…"

"…When I ask myself what beauty is in my eyes, the answer is that I would prefer not to have eyes. I would prefer not …"

"This was before Vivek, before the fire, before Chika would discover exactly how difficult it was to dig his own grave…"

"There was nothing boiling in him, just a loud and clear exhale, a weight of peace wrapping around his heart.”"

"That morning, she was wearing an orange cotton dress; she looked like a burning sunset, and Chika knew immediately th…"

"(chapter 2)"

"Osita wished, much later, that he’d told Vivek the truth then, that he was so beautiful he made the air around him du…"