Interview: Jamil Jan Kochai, author, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak
For Jamil Jan Kochai, 30, fiction is a “comforting space” in which he explores his family’s collective memory. His debut novel, 99 Nights in Logar (2019), drew on his childhood memories of visiting Logar in eastern Afghanistan. His latest, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories (Penguin Random House), is a collection of 12 short stories. Excerpts from an interview:
The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories is about the inheritance of loss and the intergenerational sorrow running through Afghan-American…