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This reads as a memory of being shaped by stories and by a slower, more rooted way of living. It can be taken to mean that those visits gave the speaker a deep sense of tradition and narrative, and that hearing elders speak can later become a source for writing, identity, or understanding where one comes from.
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About Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Indian-born American author and poet
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an Indian-born American author and poet, and the Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Writing at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. Her work has reached readers across fiction and poetry, and 107 quotes from her appear on this site. She is best known for Arranged Marriage, her short story collection, which won an American Book Award in 1996. Two of her novels and one short story were adapted into films, extending her reach beyond the page into cinema.
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