Recounting a conversation with an old friend in the wake of the disorienting success of her novel The God of Small Things , Roy finds herself suffocated by the intimation that the trajectory of a persons happiness had peaked because she had accidentally stumbled upon success' a notion premised on the unimaginative belief that wealth and fame were the mandatory stuff of everybodys dreams. She tells her friend: Youve lived too long in New York There are other worlds
Dustin Gardiner is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer
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doi: 10.3390/toxics11100847