Violence, Justice + Ghosts | Saraid de Silva + Gowri Koneswaran |

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“Revenge, hair, ghosts, signs and omens, inheritance, the sun; sharp or dissolved, the double, the unsayable, the outward landscape manifest in the body, beauty, heat, fervour, betrayal, the material of memory” — marginalia scrawled by one journalist in Saraid de Silva’s debut novel, Amma, which follows three generations of South Asian women who reject, who regret, who brawl and search for love in the worlds they have inherited. From Aotearoa, she joins writer, performing artist and lawyer Gowri Koneswaran to discuss grief, rage, and writing across Sri Lanka’s diaspora. Find out more at asianamericanliteraturefestival.org/