An Offbeat Ghost Story: On Priyanka Champaneri’s “The City of Good Death”
“The City of Good Death” deals in stereotypes related to India, but it also vividly presents the life of the characters in its lush prose.
Suparno Banerjee is an associate professor of English at Texas State University specializing in science fiction, utopian/dystopian literature and film, Indian literature and culture, and postcolonial studies. He is the author of Indian Science Fiction: Patterns, History and Hybridity (2020). His scholarship on science fiction has also appeared in various journals and anthologies.
“The City of Good Death” deals in stereotypes related to India, but it also vividly presents the life of the characters in its lush prose.