Written by Ishita Sengupta |New Delhi |Updated: May 12, 2019 5:53:31 pm
Small Days And Nights: Tishani Doshi’s novel expands the definition of motherhood
Tishani Doshi’s latest novel, Small Days And Nights is a deeply layered work underlining the existence and experiences of outsiders, their inability to belong, that often later transforms into their refusal.
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Moments after being privy to a conversation between two women regarding children — the need to have them or not — Grace is asked by one of them, does she want kids? “I have inherited a kid, that’s plenty,” the protagonist of Tishani Doshi’s Small Days And Nights replies. The word “inherited” — so sterile in its implication — seems like an apparent misfit here, a wrong usage almost. One inherits inanimate objects, land, wealth, not children. And yet, Grace indeed had inherited a kid, one she had no knowledge about — her elder sister Lucia.
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