The novel, a dark comedy about family and responsibility, centers on a queer, South Asian woman working a thankless, alienating gig-economy job.
Family, isolation and late-stage capitalism are just three of the themes Priya Guns explores in her debut novel, “Your Driver is Waiting,” out Feb. 28 from. Pitched as a “gender-flipped reboot of the iconic 1970s film ‘Taxi Driver,’” the book follows the days of Damani, a queer Tamil woman working as a rideshare driver.
A writer, actor and student, Guns explains how she drew from her own background to create the world of “Your Driver is Waiting.” This interview has been edited for length and clarity. When you sit down and you talk to your friends who are Brown, this is what we talk about. It’s like, I have to do this, I have to do that. When I left my parents’ house in 2009 because I wanted to see the world, that was a huge deal. Being children of immigrants, it’s part of our lives.It’s inspired by “Taxi Driver” in that I really thought about the film while writing, but the book is very different and stands alone in its own right.
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