Sri Lankan-American author V.V. Brotherless Nightfollows the fortunes of young Sashikala Kulenthiren, a Sri Lankan Tamil teenager in the early 1980s, as the country plunges into ever-escalating violence and blatant apartheid-like policies. You will not even be able to see yourself in the gathering crowd of those who would kill you.” This multiple-allegiances theme also leads to some darkly funny …
