In this author's first novel, the woman "Pinky" bites the cheeks of men she is attracted to, and a postal clerk tries to end his anonymity by climbing a tree and declaring that he is a hermit. In another work by this author, a woman whose clothesline is sagging with name-brand undergarments muses on how V.S. Naipaul is "stuck in the past." That character also offers her daughter's employment at th
In this author's first novel, the woman "Pinky" bites the cheeks of men she is attracted to, and a postal clerk tries to end his anonymity by climbing a tree and declaring that he is a hermit. In another work by this author, a woman whose clothesline is sagging with name-brand undergarments muses on how V.S. Naipaul is "stuck in the past." That character also offers her daughter's employment at the BBC as evidence that England has become more tolerant. Major characters in that work by this author include a "shadow class" cook who frequently changes jobs in New York, Guju, and a math tutor who leaves the teenage student he has seduced and joins a group of rebels in Nepal, Gyan. This author of Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard is the child of another novelist, who wrote Where Shall We Go This Summer?, Fire on the Mountain, and Clear Light of Day. For 10 points, name this Anglo-Indian writer of The Inheritance of Loss, the daughter of Anita.
In this author's first novel, the woman "Pinky" bites the cheeks of men she is attracted to, and a postal clerk tries to end his anonymity by climbing a tree and declaring that he is a hermit.
Kiran Desai [prompt on Desai]