A painting titled “This is Father” by the famous Indian artist Atul Dodiya. This image had been in my mind when I was writing what became My Beloved Life. I go over this connection, and others, in a piece I wrote for Hazlitt magazine. As I say in the piece somewhere, to incorporate photographs and paintings in my fiction has always seemed to me a bit like “smuggling contraband in from the realm of the actual.” Read the whole piece here.