Kamila Shamsie was raised in Pakistan, lives in London, and has written seven novels. This included saying, “Listen, I have been on Radio 4.” There was this sense of living in a surveillance state. If someone is a horrible person, they are horrible whether they are in your family or not. I don’t have such a horrible person in my family, but I do have beloved aunts. Being a citizen makes me feel more able to take part in the conversation.

Source: The Guardian August 27, 2017 07:52 UTC