Kasim Ali works at Penguin Random House, and has previously been shortlisted for Hachette’s Mo Siewcherran Prize and longlisted for the 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize, and has contributed to The Good Journal.
Good Intentions is his debut novel.
He comes from Birmingham and lives in London.
At Electric Lit Ali tagged nine favorite books about interracial relationships, including:
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste NgRead about the other entries on the list.
Celeste Ng never fails to make me sob. I spent a Sunday afternoon lying in bed, sunbeams pushing their way through the blinds on the windows, crying at the end.
Ng is an expert in relationships, concisely exploring them in impossible depths given that neither of her books break over 400 pages. The catalyst for the novel is the disappearance of Lydia, a beloved teenager living in a small-town in 1970s Ohio. A big theme of the book is race: the father, James, is Chinese, and the mother, Marilyn, is white. This not only affects their children, how they see themselves and how the world sees them, but also the parents themselves, and Ng writes about the complexities beautifully.
Everything I Never Told You is among Rachel Donohue's seven “coming-of-age” novels with elements of mystery or the supernatural.
--Marshal Zeringue
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