I learned to read when I was three, so I skipped right over picture books and didn't learn to appreciate art in books until much later.
Mitali PerkinsResearch is always a high priority in my fiction. Songs, fashion, politics, television, movies, trends - I try to get those details right.
Mitali PerkinsBooks have always been my home. I ransacked the library regularly from the time we moved to the States. I read on the fire escape. I read at the dinner table. I read late into the night in my room. This unhindered foraging and feasting on books - away from controlling, condemning eyes - empowered me to identify and resist misogyny, xenophobia, shadism, and other forms of injustice.
Mitali Perkins