Every so often I get a press release that mentions an interesting new book, or proposed book, that I would actually like to read (as opposed to the flood of press releases I get about books that are rather less exciting). Over the weekend I got a message from the Speculative Literature Foundation about a book that hasn’t even been written yet, but I already want to read it.

The press release was about the latest winner of SLF’s Gulliver Grant which gives money to writers who want to travel to research a book they are writing. This year’s winner is Shuchi Saraswat. I quote from the press release:

Saraswat’s novel traces a family curse from Hindu mythological times
as it weaves through generations of one family. The curse is tied to
the well-known story of how the Hindu god Ganesha got his elephant
head, and so Saraswat plans to use the $800 grant to travel to
elephant sanctuaries to research the relationship between elephants
and their caretakers.

See what I mean?