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For the Blessings of Jupiter and Venus
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Disillusioned with modern romance, globe-trotting Meena tries an arranged marriage with Avi, an aspiring politician in Ohio. But when Avi’s political opponent launches racist attacks, Meena and Avi are forced to defend their immigrant community, despite barely understanding its traditions, and protect their increasingly shaky relationship. This is an intimate, funny, and heartbreaking novel about small-town America, the Indian diaspora, and the politics of marriage.
Where
Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room 144
Princeton, NJ 08544,
Speakers
Varun Gauri
Princeton University
Varun Gauri teaches courses in global development and behavioral economics at the School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. His short fiction was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and recognized in Best American Nonrequired Reading. He was a Summer Writer-in-Residence at Washington, DC’s The Inner Loop. For the Blessings of Jupiter and Venus is his first novel.
Sheila Kohler
Princeton University
Sheila Kohler is the author of eleven novels, three volumes of short fiction, a memoir, and many essays. Her most recent novel is Open Secrets (Penguin 2020). Her memoir, Once We Were Sisters, was published in 2017 by Penguin as well as Canongate in England and Spain.
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Co-hosted with: Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies, Program in South Asian Studies (OWNER)
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