Rohinton Mistry on how American airports did him wrong
By Sandip Roy
New California Media
If you live in the United States, award-winning novelist Rohinton Mistry will probably not be coming to a bookstore near you anytime soon. The Indian-born Canadian author had just embarked on his American tour to promote his new novel, Family Matters, when his publisher announced Mistry was cutting it short and returning to Canada.
The problem was not the reviews: The book had been nominated for a Booker Prize and had just won the Kiriyama Prize for fiction. From his home in Toronto, Mistry told the radio show UpFront “I indicated to my publishers that I would not be continuing with the book tour because I was worn out by the constant, 100 percent frequency of the so-called random checks at the airports.”
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