Thanks to Moorish Girl for pointing me to this interview with the author of the beautiful novel Purple Hibiscus. This is the rare book that actually made me cry. She says that some of her favorite authors are “Paule Marshall, Amit Chaudhuri, John Banville, Nawal El-Saadawi, Graham Greene, Flora Nwapa, Bernard Malamud, Ivan Turgenev and the incredibly talented John Gregory Brown”. I am looking forward to reading more of her work.