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Parramatta: A Dictionary of Place and Memory - S
Raaza Jamshed is asked in an interview about the supernatural elements in her stories, especially the angels.
They are not supernatural. They are part of my reality, a sentiment that echoes Gabriel García Márquez. What they call magical realism is our reality. And then Joan Didion, after visiting Central America, read The Autumn of the Patriarch. The entire story is a dense, furling, unbroken reverie, written in a single paragraph.
Didion’s verdict? There is nothing magical. García Márquez is writing social realism.