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Brotherless Night

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The book is informative. The characters and their life stories pull the reader in. The prose is alternately informative, eloquent and moving. The focus on Sashi and her family gives readers a connection to the many who struggled and suffered. Compassion is what the reader feels. My eyes teared up, not just once but repeatedly. This talented author delivers here a novel that both teaches and moves readers emotionally. I am impressed.

AM: I loved the main protagonist, the intelligent, brave Sashi, who tells the story of the Sri Lankan civil war from a first-person point of view. At the start, she is studying for her A levels at school and wants to become a doctor. Can you talk a little about your choice of this young female character for narrating this story?A heartbreaking exploration of a family fractured by civil war. This beautiful, nuanced novel follows a young doctor caught within conflicting ideologies as she tries to save lives. I couldn't put this book down BRIT BENNETT, bestselling author of THE VANISHING HALF SP: I loved it, and I did think it was interesting that it could serve both functions, depending on who’s reading it. I was fortunate that there are a lot of books about this time period, many of which are specifically in university libraries. And I’ve taught in universities off and on. I’ve taught college and university since basically the fall of 2008. I’ve had access to a lot of different libraries in different places, so I made use of that. Even before that, as a graduate student, I remember discovering the University of Iowa had an enormous number of books about Sri Lankan history, which was, for some reason, a surprise to me. And that was the moment I began to understand the capacity of university libraries, which I’m so grateful for. Your question very generously asks me about my choice and again, here, there was a lot of subconscious work going on. I don’t know how much I consciously chose her, and how much she sort of showed up and started bossing things around. Which, again, was very fortunate for me. I knew I was interested in medicine and that’s always been the case. There’s medicine in my first novel as well. And so that gave me a hook to hang my hat on and something that she wanted which had an arc, an educational arc. That was the thing I knew was going to go awry.

Brotherless Night is an absolute must-read and a story that I will not be forgetting any time soon. V.V. Ganeshananthan did a masterful job not only crafting this story and setting but also with her characterization. I highly recommend Brotherless Night to all!Retro Active: Bill Clinton can still work a crowd like no other Democrat -- which is both a good and bad thing." The American Prospect. September 16, 2003.

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