Swimming in the Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selvadurai + Author Interview [in Bloomsbury Review]
01 Jan, by in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Fiction, Repost, South Asian, Sri Lankan, Young Adult Readers
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Shyam Selvadurai Debuts Swimming in the Monsoon Sea
While ‘home’ today for Shyam Selvadurai is undoubtedly Toronto, Canada, the ‘home’ that he plumbs for his books remains Sri Lanka, where he was born and lived...
THE perfect travel companion, filled with some of the very best writers of the international South Asian diaspora, from Jhumpa Lahiri to Rohinton Mistry to Michael Ondaatje.
Review: 
Arjie, a young boy growing up in an upper-middle-class family in Sri Lanka, is "funny" – he prefers to dress in saris and play with the girls. He comes of age amidst a time...