Novelist Tanwi Nandini Islam and I wandered through Brooklyn and talked block parties, miniskirts, the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, and “wish-fulfillment” in her novel Bright Lines.
Here’s her story, which aired on WNYC last week:
http://www.wnyc.org/story/bangladesh-brooklyn-tanwi-nadini-islams-bright-lines/
Mythili G. Rao 