Shanthi Sekaran is author of "the Prayer Room."Shanthi Sekaran expects to be "boxed in" with other Indian American writers, though she doesn't like the notion. "After all," Sekaran was saying on the phone from her parents' Berkeley home, "I am an Indian American writer, and I do write about Indians and Indian Americans." That's obvious – so what's the conflict? "When an Indian American writer portrays India, a reader will already have seen five other portrayals in other books and inject what they've seen before," she explained.
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