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“An Unashamed Proposal”
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Fiction by Kiran Desai, the author of “The Inheritance of Loss” and “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny”: Look, Sunny said, however progressive my mother is, she is an Indian woman from another generation. Do you really think I can tell her that we sleep in the same bed?