Arts and Culture

'Brotherless Night' explores a young Sri Lankan Tamil woman's life, love and idealism set against civil war

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Twin Cities author V.V. Ganeshananthan’s second novel “Brotherless Night” took almost two decades to write. It’s the story of a young medical student caught up in the violence of the Sri Lankan civil war which began in the 1980s. Ganeshananthan says she wants the story to show the importance of the way women support each other and how this becomes even more important during times of conflict.
Courtesy of Random House; Sophia Mayrhofer