The author of A House Is a Body talks about motherhood, textual ambiguity, and how the external world influences her interior explorations.
, is a nuanced and powerful collection about our most urgent and deeply felt experiences — grief, love, and desire. In “Blindness,” a newlywed’s depression causes a rift between herself and her suddenly cruel husband, leaving her to escape into alternate dream lives. In “My Brother at the Station,” a pregnant woman catches sight of her brother, long estranged because of his ability to see the dead., and we wanted to dive a little deeper into the book with Shruti herself.
Shruti Swamy: I really appreciate you drawing this connection. My stories are very focused on my characters: their interior and even dream lives, and their relationships with each other. Even with that focus though, I wanted to be responding to the world I was writing them in, the issues that keep me up at night.
As a reader, I find a lot of pleasure in connecting the dots of a story, running beside it or sometimes even a little behind it, trying to follow and understand its movement. It asks more of me as a reader, but the payoff is a deeper intimacy with the story.
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