‘First Darling of the Morning’

Thrity Umrigar, the most prolific Parsi Zoroastrian novelist of the twenty-first century, was born and raised in Mumbai in the 1960s and 1970s, leaving at the age of twenty-one to study and work in America. In this interview, Thrity reflects on her own sense of identity and the factors which inform and shape her writing, in particular those aspects of her Parsi upbringing which have fuelled and continue to drive her creative approach.