Truth, Time, and Ways of Seeing with Janice Pariat

In this episode author Janice Pariat discusses questions of truth, time, and ways of seeing. We discuss her latest book Everything the Light Touches published in 2022. It has been in several best settler lists globally, and touched many many people’s hearts . Janice offers so much love, insight, and curiosity with her words and stories. Janice seamlessly weaves in history and orality into her fiction writing. Everything the Light Touches is a historical fiction and bring to readers the multiple and intersectional histories of environment, identity, travel, and the interstices of colonial and indigenous knowledge. Her earlier works, Boats in Land in particular addresses questions of historical sources and historical identity with specific reference to Meghalaya. Listen to us talk about Janice using historical sources as an author of literary fiction, writing characters as a "contradictory bunch of multitudes", geological and non-linear time, and the curiosity that drives her writing process,