Meghana Mysore presents LET ALL OUR GHOSTS DEPART
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Join us on Tuesday, September 8, in Remington to celebrate the release of Meghana Mysore's new story collection, Let All Our Ghosts Depart! Meghana will be in conversation with Baltimore author Marian Crotty.
About Let All Our Ghosts Depart:
In Meghana Mysore's debut short story collection, present-day women and girls of the South Asian diaspora grapple with belonging and are haunted by intergenerational inheritances. Mysore, herself the daughter of Indian immigrants, spins her stories around narrators struggling to assimilate into the surreal world around them. In the world of these stories, ghosts are real--in “Repair Shop,” dead mothers reappear as chiding, broken-down cars; in “Hoarder,” the narrator’s ex-lovers transform into scarves that won't let her go. In another story, a daughter, trapped inside her grief, spends her days Face Timing with her dead father, watching him become a young man she never knew.
At turns absurd and darkly humorous, and sometimes speculative, Mysore’s stories touch on real-life experiences of intergenerational trauma, womanhood, the fluidity of desire and longing, and coming home to one’s body. Her characters have faced violences small and large, holding losses that bind them to their pasts and weigh them down in daily life. Each of these stories contains an experience of transformation, be it small or monumental for these women, who find spaces of freedom and delight within their circumstances.
Let All Our Ghosts Depart releases on Tuesday, September 1. Preorder your copy here!
Meghana Mysore is the author of the story collection Let All Our Ghosts Depart. Her writing has appeared in The Yale Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Audacity, and more, and she is the winner of the Barry Hannah Prize in Fiction. Mysore has been a Steinbeck Fellow and a scholar at McCormack Writing Center and Bread Loaf. She holds an MFA from Hollins University and a BA in English from Yale. Mysore has taught as visiting faculty at Amherst College and Bucknell University, and is currently an assistant professor of English and creative writing at Randolph College in central Virginia. Learn more about Meghana Mysore at https://www.meghanamysore.com/
Marian Crotty’s debut short story collection What Counts as Love, was longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize and won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. Her short stories have appeared in venues including the Kenyon Review, The Sun, Ploughshares, and Best American Short Stories 2020. She has received fellowships or scholarships from Yaddo, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the US Fulbright Program. She lives in Baltimore, where she is an associate professor of writing at Loyola University Maryland and a contributing editor at The Common.
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