Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.

Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well?

It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.

The little babies are missing their families from their past lives. The babies have old souls and the old souls have to shrink to become little babies. The tears loosen their memories so they can slide away. They cry at the life they have lost, and then they cry at everything they'll forget.

If anybody reads an Indian newspaper, all these things are obvious, and so I am not breaking news. All I am doing is representing my community as it actually is. Also, I have to assume that readers are sophisticated enough to know that not every person in a community is the same, and so there are many people who would not force an abortion just because a fetus is female. Even within my stories, people hold opposing views.

It is hard to create a first-person narrator that can be a child and yet is able to take in enough information for the narrative to be legible to the reader.

Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.