Quotes by : Nayomi Munaweera

In these myriad ways, we carved out our lives in Los Angeles. Yet falling asleep was often an act of....

They hate me because I am the worst thing possible. I am the bad mother.But here's a secret: in America....

This is the beginning of what we will come to call the Upstairs-Downstairs, Linga-Singha wars.

There is silence and then the familiar smack of Beatrice Muriel’s palm against her forehead. “A love....

Then too, motherhood is broken because in this place, to be a good mother is to give yourself completely.....

They say that family is the place of safety. But sometimes this is the greatest lie; family is not sanctuary,....

The campus spreads around him like the verdant pleasure garden of an ancient king. He is enraptured by....

We play hide-and-seek, wade into her ponds to fill jam jars with writhing tadpoles, and cavort with her....

In Sri Lanka, when two strangers meet, they ask a series of questions that reveal family, ancestral village,....

Leaving is an act that cannot be undone.