In the last few months, I’ve spent a lot of time in the company of academics; having not known a single anthropologist, I now know many. I also went to the Madison South Asia conference this year, aka desi nerd fest, the kind of place where someone says, “Yeah, well, what do you expect from a Sanskritist” and everyone laughs knowingly. So I am proud to say that I’ve officially “arrived” in the academic world, as my novel has been included in a book by Erin Khuê Ninh, a professor at UC Santa Barbara, titled Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature. I have to say it’s quite a thrill to see your work cited in an academic context.
You can read the section which cites my book here.
