“It is hard to create a first-person narrator that can be a child and yet is able to take in enough information for the narrative to be legible to the reader.” FirstsChildrenPersonsHardEnoughAbleInformationReaderNarrativeFirst PersonNarrators Author:Akhil Sharma
“If anybody reads an Indian newspaper, all these things are obvious, and so I am not breaking news. All I am doing is representing my community as it actually is. Also, I have to assume that readers are sophisticated enough to know that not every person in a community is the same, and so there are many people who would not force an abortion just because a fetus is female. Even within my stories, people hold opposing views.” PeopleEnoughCommunityFemaleAssumingObviousAbortionSophisticated Author:Akhil Sharma
