Belonging as Burden: Alycia Pirmohamed, interviewed

August’s Book of the Month has been Alycia Pirmohamed’s ‘Shorelines: Memory, migration and the selves we become’. In this month’s author interview, Alycia speaks to Tallulah Brennan about embodied experiences of place, writing against the lone explorer, and the interrelation between the natural world and empire. Find an extract from the interview below. Alycia Pirmohamed, […]

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