Violence, Justice + Ghosts | Saraid de Silva + Gowri Koneswaran
Slow Currents at the 2024 Asian American Literature Festival
Violence, Justice + Ghosts | Saraid de Silva + Gowri Koneswaran
“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.
Available from 14 September.
The Asian American Literature Festival Collective
The Asian American Literature Festival Collective is a cooperative devoted to stewarding the futures of Asian American literature as art form and social ecosystem. Organizing partners within the collective include the Asian American Literary Archive, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Bamboo Ridge, The Georgia Review, Kaya Press, Kearny Street Workshop, KidLit with Sarah Park Dahlen, Reorienting Reads, and Slow Currents.