Kuzhali Manickavel
Hurray! Kuzhali Manickavel’s debut collection, Insects Are Just Like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wings, is out from Blaft Publications Private Limited.
You might remember Kuzhali’s story “Hoodoos” which placed first in our Canadian Travel Stories Contest in 2007. If you are new to Kuzhali’s work, you are in for a treat. If you know her work already, you are probably, like me, on hold to India right now trying to order the book.
Here’s what Miranda July has to say about the collection:
"Not merely lyrical and strange, but also deadpan funny. I can’t shake the feeling that I know this woman, personally -- like we hung out at a party or something. But I don’t, and we didn’t. She’s just that good."
posted by Andrew Tibbetts | 11:15 am
9 Comments:
Congratulations, Kuzhali!
Yeah! Wonder if she's still reading us.
Mais oui, I am a sort-of-but-not-really Canadian after all.
Thanks very much for the post and good wishes :)
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I'm looking forward to this book! I hope there are ants!
That's Blaft with an L not R. And yes there are ants :-)
Glad you're still with us, Kuzhali. Many congrats! I hope the book does well. Good for you, getting Miranda July's endorsement!
Rakesh, thanks for the correction. I went in and changed it for Andrew. Blaft, not Braft.
Oops, sorry about the brafting of the blaft- I was too excited to put the post up and stinted on the proofreading, lesson learned! Thanks Tricia for catching it!
I dearly loved this book. My review can be read here.
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