Excerpts from the interview: Q: What was the genesis of this book? A: I’d finished a draft of Accidental Magic in 2016. A day or two after that I'd gone with my mother to Bandhavgarh on safari. Anyone who's read the book can understand why, in that setting, I would have the idea. It seemed like an image. .. It took a couple of years to figure out that it was a novel and that should be the ending. Q: The play on the title fits beautifully with your novel and the surround sound in the ecosystem . A: David Lodge gave his memoir the title ‘Writer's Luck’. Whether I'm writing short stories or novels, I have difficulty with titles. In this case, everything just seemed to line up. The image of the tiger, the title of the ‘tiger’s share’, contrasted with the
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