Gabriella Kuruvilla is a writer, journalist, and painter born in Milan in 1969 to an Indian father and Italian mother. She has published the novels Media chiara e noccioline (as Viola Chandra, 2001) and Milano, fin qui tutto bene (2012); the children’s book Questa non è una baby-sitter (2011); and the short story collection È la vita, dolcezza (2008)....