"The stories, at first, were folklore. My grandmother would tell a ghost story, then she would say: oh, that was after…"

"I think that might not have been enough, were it not for me being my family ’s only hope. Because they were also dyin…"

"When I really assess Western culture in how it grapples with other bodies and other ecologies of thinking, at the end…"

"We’re talking about a claim to storytelling. We are taught that a valid or useful education is one in medicine, scien…"

"The great male writers of the European tradition, be it Proust, Tolstoy, Turgenev, deemed that those most inspiring t…"

"This book is as much a coming-of-age story as it is a coming-of-art. I would say that I begin with the voices of thos…"

"The novel insists that there is power, and with it, agency, in survival—which includes the interracial tensions you s…"

"The world can misread us, and they will, and they have, and they won’t stop. But we do not have to misread ourselves.…"

"...you realize that grief is perhaps the last and final translation of love. And I think, you know, this is the last …"

"When I lost my mother, I thought, there's no point. Everything I have done, I'd done for her. I went to school for he…"