Still, Sashi's days are filled with love for her parents and four brothers, and a secret longing for the handsome, kind and brilliant K. Sashi sees education as a way to make a place for herself in a society where active discrimination by the government against Tamils is legal and an everyday part of life for Sashi and her family. Everything is also the story of Sashi's family, members of the Tamil ethnic minority, and how they have been torn apart by the war and the events leading up to it.Īs a young high school student, Sashi dreams of testing into medical school, like her beloved older brother Niranjan, and his best friend, called K. I promise that you will come to see that it cannot contain everything that has happened."Įverything, in this case, is the Sri Lankan Civil War (1983-2009) between the Tamil Tigers and the government's Sinhalese majority forces.
Sashi then reflects on the meaning of the word "terrorist": "We begin with this word. "I recently sent a letter to a terrorist I used to know," begins narrator Sashi, reflecting on the events that led to her exile from Sri Lanka in New York City. Ganeshananthan knows how to grab the reader's attention and hold it in her propulsive second novel, "Brotherless Night."
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