Kiran Desai Reads “An Unashamed Proposal”

Pay attention and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You ListenSign as much as obtain our weekly Books & Fiction publication.Kiran Desai reads her story “An Unashamed Proposal,” from the August 11, 2025, problem of the journal. Desai is the writer of the novels “Hullabaloo within the Guava Orchard” and “The Inheritance of Loss,” which received the Booker Prize in 2006. A brand new novel, “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny,” from which this story was tailored, shall be printed this fall.