Author, Journalist, Pop Folklorist
My first book, a travel memoir, describes the ten months I spent living in Lia, the tiny Greek mountaintop village where my father was born and my grandmother was murdered, overseeing the rebuilding of my grandparents’ house, which fell into ruin after the Greek Civil War.
Maya Das is an Indian-American doctor who believes that her family has been cursed. Over the course of this novel she travels between New York City and India in an attempt to lift the curse, save her family, and forge one identity while torn between two cultures.
Inspired in part by my Nicaraguan grandmother-in-law, this novel, set in Nicaragua and New Orleans, follows three generations of Nicaraguan women as they explore their intense relationships to each other, and to their homeland.
A couple of weeks ago I woke up thinking about a man who is not my husband. He's someone I went out with over a decade ago and there was no reason he should have popped into my head, except: ...
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The challenge of travel, for me, is time. My nostalgia vein runs deep, so I constantly want to return to the places I love, and when I'm there, I wander around narrating what makes each spot ...
It's the most wonderful day of the year: Lunar New Year. Although I'm not Asian and don't follow a lunar calendar, I can't help but get excited about this holiday because it involves so many ...
Sorry to disappoint you, but that is not the name of the next sun-splashed singing, dancing delight coming to a cinema near you this summer. It's a brief summary of the last week of my ...
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