According to Nayomi Munaweera, Patel, like most women with Indian cultural roots, faced difficulties in speaking openly about sex in her home....
An interview with Nayomi Munaweera, from The Write Stuff series over at SF Weekly:
Nayomi Munaweera was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
At the age of three she immigrated with her family to Nigeria. In 1984, political unrest in Nigeria necessitated a second migration and the family settled in Southern California.
Nayomi Munaweera is one among a handful of contemporary Sri Lankan writers With degrees from Georgetown University, Oxford and Yale Law School.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Literature from the University of California, Irvine and a Master’s degree in South Asian Literature from the University of California, Riverside. In 2001, she abandoned her PhD studies at the University of California, Riverside after it became impossible for her to ignore that her heart belonged not to academia but to writing.
She moved to the Bay Area, taught at a community college, tutored students and wrote a novel. Island of A Thousand Mirrors was initially published in South Asia in 2012. It went on to be nominated for many of the sub-continent’s major literary prizes and won the Commonwealth Regional