Sayantani Dasgupta Book Launch & Reading: Brown Women Have Everything

Name: Sayantani Dasgupta Book Launch & Reading: Brown Women Have Everything
Start: 2024-10-03T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 4418 Park Ave, Wilmington, NC, United States, North Carolina 28403

Schedule

Thu Oct 03 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

4418 Park Ave, Wilmington, NC, United States, North Carolina 28403 | Wilmington, NC

Join us on October 3 at 7pm for a celebration and book launch of “Brown Women Have Everything: Essays on (Dis)comfort and Delight” by Sayantani Dasgupta! Copies are available here in the store :)
"Brown Women Have Everything" embraces the brilliant sense of wonder and humor unique to Dasgupta's writing as we follow her, now living and teaching in the United States, to cathedrals in Italy, pirate graveyards in North Carolina, hair salons in Idaho, her aunt’s kitchen in Bangladesh, graffiti-lined streets of Colombia, the hierarchical world of academia, and her marriage to a handsome Sikh. As she moves through the world, she examines issues of the body, violence, travel, and belonging with a mix of humor, joy, pride, and outrage. While the eighteen interwoven essays in this collection call out bigotry, bias, and othering, they ultimately celebrate the ties that bind our disparate, global lives together.
Born in Calcutta and raised in New Delhi, Sayantani Dasgupta is also the author of “Women Who Misbehave,” “Fire Girl: Essays on India, America, & the In-Between”, and the chapbook “The House of Nails: Memories of a New Delhi Childhood.” She is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.