Temporary People

by Deepak Unnikrishnan

  p.s.: A special shout-out to my tenacious agent Anna Ghosh, the dreamers at Restless Books—Ilan Stavans, Joshua Ellison, Nathan Rostron, Brinda Ayer, Jack Saul, Julia Berick—colleagues in the Writing Program at NYU Abu Dhabi, the poet/ artist Jill Magi, the artist Michaela Lakova, the photographers Silvia Razgova and Philip Cheung, and Sangam House. And to Raya, my confidante and reader of every draft, who found me broken, but doesn’t mind me broken, to you I say: Blagodarya.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  DEEPAK UNNIKRISHNAN is a writer from Abu Dhabi and a resident of the USA, who has lived in Teaneck, New Jersey, Brooklyn, New York, and Chicago, Illinois. He has studied and taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and presently teaches at New York University Abu Dhabi. Temporary People, his first book, was the inaugural winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing. It was awarded the Hindu Prize 2017 at the Chennai Lit for Life Festival.