Question

In a novel by this author, a factory continues to manufacture banana jam illegally after the Food Products Organization bans it for being neither jam nor jelly. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this author who wrote about a family that owns Paradise Pickles and Preserves. In that novel by this author, Sophie drowns while going to the History House with her twin cousins.
ANSWER: Arundhati Roy (The novel is The God of Small Things.)
[10e] Arundhati Roy is from this country. A plane named after one of the gardens of Paradise explodes in mid-air in The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie, who was born in this country.
ANSWER: India [or the Republic of India]
[10h] In Roy’s most recent novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, the hijra Anjum eventually founds the Jannat Guest House, named after the Urdu word for “Paradise,” in one of these places.
ANSWER: graveyards [or cemetery or cemeteries]
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