ethnic minorities we often talk about code switching to help us kind of navigate our way through a predominantly white environment that we find ourselves in. We often talk about how draining that is but what about when your code switching within your own family? Is it draining or is it just natural and you just know that that's what you have to do? I think it also does drain you and it stops relationships being as as fulfilling as they could be, she says.
This week on the Penguin Podcast, Nihal Arthanayake is joined by the second winner of Stormzy's Merky Books Prize, and she was also one of the Observer's best new novelists, it's Jyoti Patel.
Jyoti joins us to discuss her debut novel, The Things That We Lost, a story of family, loss and how far we go to protect those we love.
Also discussed on the podcast is the experience of mixing British and Gujarati cultures, the privilege of studying the arts, the importance of being your authentic self, the idea of the perfect sentence, and where it is that Jyoti feels the writer's life most intensely.
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