Hari Kunzru talks to Toby Lichtig

Hari Kunzru (The Impressionist, Transmission) shares his gripping and brilliantly orchestrated new novel. Blue Ruin moves back and forth through time to deliver an extraordinary portrait of an artist as he reunites with his past and confronts the world he once loved and left behind. Once, Jay was a promising artist, but now, undocumented in the US, he lives out of his car, delivering groceries at the height of the pandemic. A delivery leads him to a chance encounter with a former lover from his art school days – setting a reckoning decades in the making into motion. Kunzru talks to the TLS Fiction and Politics Editor.