Our perceptive narrator is relentless in revealing his flaws: jealousy, pettiness, selfishness and so on. It’s the life story of Ajay Mishra, from his early life in Delhi, his move to America, his father’s alcoholism and finally Ajay’s incapacity to understand how a relationship might work without pain, conflict and shame. All we did all day long was tell stories.” The father of three (and foster dad of one) recently came out with a book of stories of his own, “ Fortune Smiles,” which was just nominated for a National Book Award.
“I think my big influences were construction workers - ex-cons, merchant marines, guys who ran drugs from Colombia. “When I went for my senior year in high school, they told me I was already done, so I started working construction,” Johnson says. The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Orphan Master’s Son” says his mother used to sign him up for summer school and extra classes to keep him out of trouble. “Who are my influences? Everybody, probably,” says Adam Johnson.
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