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Cheryl L Snell
When I married into a Hindu Brahmin family, I began to write seriously as a way to penetrate the protocol of another culture. My novel, Shiva's Arms, explores South Indian life, particularly the stage referred to as samsara.
The term haunted me for awhile— samsara--the sibilance of a word that can connote drowning. I had been reading Indian writers—Lahiri, Desai, Divakaruni-- and was drawn to the stories of immigrant families thrashing in their domestic seas. The plight of characters who straddle two continents, the lives they make here, and the families they leave behind, raised the more...
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