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“During [a trip to Sri Lanka], I bought a lot of books about Sri Lankan history, and on the way back home, I was reading all of them, looking for things that might inform my fiction. I found the story of a hunger strike at a temple and was really interested in it … So I took that piece of research and started telling a new story and that became the first piece of Brotherless Night.”

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