She realised that as Noor Ahmad she at least felt like a person. As Nooria, she returned to being a shadow. Returning was harder than changing.
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I just recorded a podcast based on my experience editing an anthology of short fiction. ‘Never, ever, describe speech using anything other than “said,”’ I opined.
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To read Mahapatra’s stories is to experience defamiliarisation, which occurs when the literary language disrupts habitual perception by making the ordinary appear extraordinary and the extraordinary disturbingly ordinary.
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If an English person were asked where our Midwest was, they’d know the person who asked was probably American.
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If you have ever bought a transit ticket in a European city, you know the particular humiliation of it.
