Kashyap skillfully interweaves the magical and the real to drive home his point. In His Father’s Disease Kashyap’s stories have drifted and floated from the house, looking for a home in the readers who would read them. - Huffington Post

In His Father’s Disease, Aruni Kashyap not only addresses this issue but also challenges it through 10 remarkable short stories, while exploring the ideas of linguistic and ethnic stereotypes and sexuality. - The Telegraph

His Father’s Disease, Aruni Kashyap’s collection of stories, deftly explores how marginalised identities are made to fit particular narratives. - The Hindu Business Line

Aruni Kashyap is a writer and translator. He is the author of the novels The House with a Thousand Stories (Viking, 2013, English) and Noikhon Etiya Duroit (Panchajanya Prakashan, 2019, Assamese). He won the Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship for Creative Writing, the University of Edinburgh, in 2009, and his poetry collection, There is No Good Time for Bad News, was a finalist for the 2018 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize and 2018 Four Way Books Levis Award in Poetry. His short stories, poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in various journals and anthologies, including The Oxford Anthology of Writings from North-East India, The Kenyon Review, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Hindu, Evergreen Review and other publications. He is an assistant professor of Creative Writing at the University of Georgia, Athens, USA.