The Future Was Always Here

The fiction thesis paper ‘The Future Was Always Here’ presents the first half of the larger novel, a story that unifies the larger tragedy of racial violence with the personal roadblocks of a father-son relationship. The novel is told posthumously by the central character—Vishnu—after his murder. He has a foot in each home (India and the USA) and is an “outsider” to both. Vishnu narrates the story in the first-person omniscient point-of-view, capable of narrating through time and space, understanding the friends, family, and other influential characters, moments, and decisions that played a role in his eventual fate.