“An Unashamed Proposal”
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?
Oh, how could he have forgotten that love, when it arrives, arrives always twinned to its destructive force, as inevitably as God and Devil, life and death, home and the leaving of it.