In 'The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi,' a middle-aged mother steers both the pirate ship and the story.
Shannon Chakraborty is the author of "The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi."
“I spent a solid year writing it, just convinced it was never actually going to be written or published. And my career was dead before it had started,” Chakraborty says. “ I would get up and sit in my most uncomfortable chair so that I didn't fall back asleep and just try to get some words in.
“I think the Indian Ocean is one of the most fascinating cultural spheres in our human story. We're often very used to thinking about history and people in terms of land and empire and land borders. But along the sea, you have often times far easier movement,” she says. “We often think in our globalized world today that we’re connected and that’s new. It’s not new at all. Many of the diaspora groups today have their roots thousand years ago, earlier than that.
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