Kiran Desai disappeared after winning the 2006 Booker Prize. She now reappears with a sweeping new book it took her nearly 20 years to write.

I loved this NY Times article about author Kiran Desai, who accidentally wrote a draft of her book with over 5,000 pages and "no center." Afterwards, it took her around 8 years to find the narrative's center, to cut, to craft, and finally, to publish.

A free version of this paywalled article is found at https://archive.ph/546Xh