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Recommended Reading   Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje

By the author of The English Patient, this is one of the greatest Sri Lankan novels of all time, a memoir where the author is a minor character.

In Running in the Family, Michael Ondaatje tells the story of man returning to his roots in Sri Lanka in the late 1970s. As he records his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of that “pendant off the ear of India, ” Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his Dutch-Ceylonese family. An inspired travel narrative and family memoir by an exceptional writer.