Toronto
One of Canada’s most celebrated writers, Indian-born Rohinton Mistry, abruptly ended a U.S. book tour this week after complaining of racial profiling in American airports. “As a person of color he was stopped repeatedly and rudely at each airport along the way,” according to his publicist. Mistry, whose novel Family Matters was a finalist for the Booker Prize, canceled appearances in Salt Lake City, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Iowa City, and Madison, Wisc., and returned to address a sold-out crowd in Toronto. Mistry said he noticed shortly after Sept. 11 that, for travelers in America, “a brown skin and a beard were not a felicitous combination.”
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