Akhil Sharma Quotes
It's easy when you grow up in fear to act out of fear. I don't want to embrace that fear; I prefer to be kind.
Citations
Sharma, Akhil. Interview. Guernica, 2014.
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Akhil Sharma is an Indian-American author and professor of creative writing. His first published novel An Obedient Father won the 2001 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. His second, Family Life, won the 2015 Folio Prize and 2016 International Dublin Literary Award.