The Radical Possibilities of Return: What kinds of return are possible when you can’t return home? Novelist Janika Oza considers how the narrative arcs of ordinary lives are shaped by ruptures like colonialism, war, and the Partition of India — and what it means to continually seek to return through stories, memories and objects.

Janika Oza is a writer, editor, and educator based in Toronto. Her best-selling debut novel, A History of Burning (2023) won the 2024 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and was a finalist for numerous awards including the Carol Shield’s Prize for Fiction and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. She has taught creative writing at Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Leopardi Writing Conference. Janika is the 2024-25 Writer-in-Residence at the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus and is at work on her second book.

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