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purchasable forms—so much of our twenty-first-century experience amounts to a general anesthetic.It is coming from the thing we don’t see when our vision and our livelihoods are so desperately trained on our own self-advancement.

embrace all the millions of perfect machine-crafted ways that our capitalistic culture has produced for us to withdraw.But to feel as much of it as we can bear now is to confront the deep gash in our side not as a momentary puncture in an otherwise closed-off thing.that the people for whom this is truly a victory are the ones who can afford their own nets high above.

the pain you feel from losing someone reveals that your very being doesn’t just originate from some special.but in a deeply meditative and critical and painstakingly discerning way—what it means to lose something.

and a history understood as the still open wounds whose hurting we are collectively responsible for.

Acknowledge what our self-serving utopia of endless consumer choice tries its best to hide from us: who you are is actually way less in your control than you think.laboring for French Mauritian and British planters whose greed transformed the island into the worlds biggest sugar factory for a time.

But then he saw that I was writing about people descended from indentured laborers who were not so different from the characters hes written about.INTERVIEWERWhat lay behind the impulse to write a memoir? What did you hope to memorialize about your life?BUSJEETI started looking at myself and trying to make sense of my life.

INTERVIEWERHow did you find your way back imaginatively to your childhood? What was involved in resurrecting that past? You were writing from a distance of ten thousand miles and half a centuryChrome is great for Android users.