{"id":7197,"date":"2019-09-22T17:39:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T17:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7197"},"modified":"2019-09-22T17:39:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T17:39:49","slug":"unnikrishnan-temporary-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7197","title":{"rendered":"Unnikrishnan: Temporary People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/TempPeople.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7199\" src=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/TempPeople-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/TempPeople-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/TempPeople-768x1137.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/TempPeople-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/TempPeople.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Deepak Unnikrishnan\u2019s story collection, \u201cTemporary People,\u201d riffs on the plight of South Asian guest workers in the Gulf states.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just finished Deepak Unnikrishnan&#8217;s collection of interwoven stories, <a href=\"https:\/\/restlessbooks.org\/bookstore\/temporary-people\">Temporary People<\/a> (Restless Books, 2017). The stories are about the lives of the immigrant workers in the Emirates. They tell mostly of those from Kerala &#8211; those who come and return. The style is rude and magical in a way that conveys the brutal conditions of many migrant workers in the Gulph. The New York Times has a good review,\u00a0 <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/03\/24\/books\/review\/temporary-people-deepak-unnikrishnan.html\">Stories of Fragmented Lives in the Emirates<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deepak Unnikrishnan\u2019s story collection, \u201cTemporary People,\u201d riffs on the plight of South Asian guest workers in the Gulf states. I&#8217;ve just finished Deepak Unnikrishnan&#8217;s collection of interwoven stories, Temporary People (Restless Books, 2017). The stories are about the lives of the immigrant workers in the Emirates. They tell mostly of those from Kerala &#8211; those &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7197\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unnikrishnan: Temporary People<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7197"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7200,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7197\/revisions\/7200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}