akil kumarasamy

‘Half Gods’ and Painful Fragments

‘Half Gods’ and Painful Fragments

In debut short story collection Half Gods, Akil Kumarasamy gives us the painful fragments of her characters' experiences with care, as if she is handing us shards of broken glass.

Short Stories: American Writers of South Asian Origin

Short Stories: American Writers of South Asian Origin

In the US in this year alone there have been new short story collections by at least five fine writers with origins in the Indian subcontinent: Vandana Singh; Akil Kumarasamy; Neel Patel; Chaya Bhuvaneswar; and Anita Felicelli.