She explores themes of religious freedom, belief in general, race, racial politics and class in her writing — as well as childhood, memory and its unreliability, and sibling and parent-child relationships. “You can see that many of these recur in both my books, as different as I think they are,” she tells Options in an email.
Tale of the Dreamer’s Son, Preeta Samarasan’s second book, centres on hidden hopes, secrets and what children inherit from their parents
Idle speculation and a lifelong fascination with the many ways in which children are dragged along on their parents’ spiritual journeys, sometimes being successfully indoctrinated and sometimes not, led Preeta Samarasan to write Tale of the Dreamer’s Son.
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