Tishani Doshi

can be between sisters and siblings, but also what it can mean to be a caregiver.

So not to sentimentalize that experience, because I have my brother has Down syndrome and is autistic.

And so I write very close to the bone in that sense.

Yeah.

And at the same time, I want to talk about how it enlarges one's life.

It enlarges the way that you move through the world, the way that you see the world.

It increases your generosity if you are able to have relationships such as the one that I try to write about.

The one book that I think was remarkable is this book called Agathe, written by Marlene van Nijkerk.

And I remember listening to Toni Morrison in conversation with her about that book.

And I had gone to listen to Toni Morrison, but Toni Morrison was talking to her about this book because it's set in South Africa and it's about a woman who...

who has lost the ability to speak and can only communicate with her eyelids.

And she's been cared for by this woman called Agathe, who is the sort of house help and maid.

And it's so chillingly written, the idea of the tension between them, the difficulties of their relationship, and at the same time,

This is the only person who was caring for this lady at this stage in her life.

So she's thinking back.

So it has to do with memory, which I'm very interested in as a writer and about her marriage, her children.

But of course, it's a larger story about South Africa and about apartheid and, you know, about race relations and this relationship between two women and how they are brought together and how it's almost uncomfortable, but in a way how it redeems.

of a book?

So India is an amazingly beautiful country, but one of the things that I find very, very difficult about living there is that there is such a almost disregard for human life at some level.

And because of my particular experience with my brother and having sort of been in and out of places like this throughout my life, I've really seen