But Maté reveals how addiction actually runs on a continuum through our society. I’d previously thought only an unfortunate small minority of people suffer from addictions. I read it as part of my research for Love Marriage, because Maté is a physician specializing in addiction, and one of my characters is a sex addict. In the Realm of Hungry Ghostsby Gabor Maté. But it also made me think about the news in a different, more questioning, way.made me rethink a long-held belief: Naturally, as a teenager, you’re inclined to think that adults are hypocritical. I first read it when I was 13, and it had a profound impact. And the story of one man’s struggle to carve out, against the odds, his own place in the world.ġ984 by George Orwell. It’s also a sideways look at colonialism, race, and religion. Naipaul because it is the best tragi-comedy ever written. …I recommend over and over again:Ī House for Mr. It is a story that is simultaneously brutal and unbearably tender. “Comfort girls” were basically sex slaves, raped every day by numerous soldiers. It tells the story of a Japanese-American man’s love for a Korean “comfort girl” during World War II when he was in the Japanese army stationed in Burma. The book that: …made me weep uncontrollably:Ī Gesture Lifeby Chang Rae Lee.
Intrigued by: Therapy as an alternate career and communal living. Listens to: Esther Perel’s “Where Should We Begin?” podcast. She has two children worked as a sales and marketing manager at small publishers including Verso and at a design and branding agency spends time at her summer house in Portugal (where her second novel Alentejo Blue takes place) and is adapting Love Marriage for a BBC television series. She is a fellow at the Royal Society of Literature and patron of women and girls’ empowerment organization Hopscotch Women’s Centre. The London-based author taught creative writing at Columbia University and was Distinguished Writer in Residence at the University of Surrey. Her father would eventually reunite with his family in the UK, and she would earn a philosophy, politics, and economics degree at Oxford University. Love Marriage (Scribner), about two doctors from different cultures engaged to be married, marks her fifth book and as an instant Sunday Times bestseller, welcome return.īorn in Dhaka to a Bengali father and English mother, Ali fled with her brother and mother (who she remembers reading The Story of Ferdinand to them on the flight out) when civil war broke out. A little more than 10 years have passed since her last novel and nearly 20 since her Booker Prize-shortlisted debut, Brick Lane.
Monica Ali has been open about the loss of confidence and resulting depression that kept her from bookstores, new novels, literary festivals, speaking invitations and writing for years.
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