Brotherless Night women she’s never known her Chinese

she’s never known her Chinese father

After winning the International Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Poetry Prize

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By turns devastatingly sad and winningly strange

Brotherless Night women she’s never known her ChineseJaffna, 1981. Sixteen year old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, a vicious civil war tears through her home, and her dream spins off course as she sees her four beloved brothers and their friend K swept up in the mounting violence. Desperate to act, Sashi accepts Ks invitation to work as a medic at a field hospital for the militant Tamil Tigers, who, following years of state discrimination and violence, are fighting for a