1. Seeking and Maintaining Balance
... , he replied: "In all modesty, I must admit that so far, I have only received positive reviews. I haven't felt the sting of a bad review" (147). That phenomenon still holds generally true. Hancock continues to stress how well Mistry has done in such a short time and proposes, "Is writing a gift you have?" Mistry counters the question by asking "Is it a gift? Or a fortuitous confluence of events ... larger world that disrupts family order. That world is India in 1971, when India and Pakistan engaged in a thirteen-day war that ended with the liberation of East Pakistan to become the indepe...
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