Marina Tamar Budho doesn't flinch from epic motifs -- family, abiding habitation and all that draw nears between. Contributing Editor Luis H Francia catches up with the author of House of Waiting in this take from a recent interview.
In Marina Tamar Budhos' first attempt novel House of Waiting, Sarah, the adopted daughter of fresh York Jewish émigrés, meets and marries Roland, an Indian from Guyana. From there, the revelations of immigrant experience -- filled with ambivalent irony and the inflections of sun-drenched speech -- scorn Set in 1950s ...