My challenge lay in shifting the reader’s focus from the physical to the metaphysical journey and moving their cognition from visceral and visual to one that is markedly less so.
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“The court is now in session. So, let me get this right; you killed a dra…” “Smote, your lordship.”
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Slowly, Daddy (my husband) gains consciousness and wonders why I’ve woken him up.
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I wonder if fetuses do get excited. I wouldn’t put it past them. You think they’re putting their feet up in there but they actually don’t stop. You’re probably never busier in your whole life than when you’re a fetus. That’s a medical fact. You can trust me, I’m basically a doctor.
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There are only two stories, John Gardner once wrote—a person goes on a journey, or a stranger comes to town. Perumal Murugan’s Neduneram (A Long Time) is both.





