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Deepa Anappara

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Deepa Anappara


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Kerala, India
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Deepa Anappara was born in Kerala, southern India, and worked as a journalist in India for eleven years. Her reports on the impact of poverty and religious violence on the education of children won the Developing Asia Journalism Awards, the Every Human has Rights Media Awards, and the Sanskriti-Prabha Dutt Fellowship in Journalism.


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Djinn Patrol on the Purple ...

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“Believe me,' the badshah says, 'today or tomorrow, every one of us will lose someone close to us, someone we love. The lucky ones are those who can grow old pretending they have some control over their lives, but even they will realize at some point that everything is uncertain, bound to disappear forever. We are just specks of dust in this world, glimmering for a moment in the sunlight, and then disappearing into nothing. You have to learn to make your peace with that.”
Deepa Anappara, Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

“What is a whole life? If you die when you’re still a child, is your life whole or half or zero?”
Deepa Anappara, Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

“The poem wants to know why the moon is sliced in half on some days and why it‘s a circle in other days. The worst thing about the poem is that it doesn‘t answer it‘s own question.”
Deepa Anappara, Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

Polls

What book would you like to read for our February 2023 Group Read? The theme is Purple.

The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Historical Fiction, Modern Classic
 
  38 votes 20.9%

 
  33 votes 18.1%

Violeta by Isabel Allende
Historical Fiction, Magical Realism
 
  23 votes 12.6%

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Africa, Historical Fiction
 
  19 votes 10.4%

The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
Children, Fantasy, Young Adult
 
  16 votes 8.8%

 
  16 votes 8.8%

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
Mystery, Contemporary, Thriller
 
  15 votes 8.2%

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton
Young Adult, Fantasy, Magical Realism
 
  12 votes 6.6%

Spells for Lost Things by Jenna Evans Welch
Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance
 
  6 votes 3.3%

Invisible Wounds by Tom Milton
Fiction, PTSD
 
  4 votes 2.2%

182 total votes
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