Wednesday, June 24, 7pmLIVE on Crowdcast
Books & Books and Miami Book Fair present…
A *Virtual* Evening with
MEGHA MAJUMDAR
& LAUREN GROFF
discussing
A Burning: A Novel
(Knopf, $25.95)
A Burning: A Novel
(Knopf, $25.95)
For readers of Tommy Orange, Yaa Gyasi, and Jhumpa Lahiri, an electrifying debut novel about three unforgettable characters who seek to rise–to the middle class, to political power, to fame in the movies–and find their lives entangled in the wake of a catastrophe in contemporary India.
“Powerful… propulsive…This is a book to relish for its details, for the caress of the writer’s gaze against the world… The interplay of choice and circumstance has always been the playing field of great fiction, and on this terrain, a powerful new writer stakes her claim.”
—Parul Sehgal, The New York Times
—Parul Sehgal, The New York Times
MEGHA MAJUMDAR was born and raised in Kolkata, India. She moved to the United States to attend college at Harvard University, where she was a Traub Scholar, followed by graduate school in social anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. She works as an associate editor at Catapult, and lives in New York City. A Burning is her first book.
LAUREN GROFF is the New York Times bestselling author of two novels, The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Fates and Furies and Florida, as well as the celebrated short-story collection Delicate Edible Birds. She graduated from Amherst College and has an MFA in fiction from the University of Wisconsin Madison. Her work has appeared in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker, Harper’s, and The Atlantic, and in several of the annual The Best American Short Stories anthologies. Groff’s fiction has won the Paul Bowles Prize for Fiction, the Medici Book Club Prize, the PEN/O. Henry Award, and the Pushcart Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers and a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize.