The Way You Want to Be Loved (Book Talk)

Name: The Way You Want to Be Loved (Book Talk)
Start: 2024-10-18T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-18T19:30:00-04:00
Location: 25 W 43rd St, Rm 1000, New York, NY, United States, New York 10036

Schedule

Fri Oct 18 2024 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

25 W 43rd St, Rm 1000, New York, NY, United States, New York 10036 | Manhattan, NY

Author/professor Aruni Kashyap will read from his new novel, The Way You Want to Be Loved (Gaudy Boy, 2024).
At a New Delhi conference, an Assamese writer is interrogated on why he writes about magical folktales instead of the insurgencies. A mother splashes around in the village lake to mask the lovemaking sounds of her son with another man. A newly-arrived graduate student in Minnesota navigates living arrangements with his white roommate, Mike, and Mike’s Indian girlfriend.
In agile and frank prose, The Way You Want to Be Loved tells the stories of queer, displaced lives from India’s Northeast, an underrepresented region in English fiction. A hybrid cast of characters represents the common people in these thirteen stories, whether western-trained academic or village sorcerer, army soldier or local politician, homeward-bound son or dutiful daughter-in-law. They wrestle with diasporic melancholia, the social pressures of familial duty, and the search for their own personhood, even as they live in a world where personhood is continually compromised and reshaped under oppressive forces larger than themselves. Aruni Kashyap offers up a powerful critique of the malfunctioning democracies of India and the U.S., deftly balancing devastation and tragedy with a darkly humorous tone that has readers questioning their laughter.

Where is it happening?

25 W 43rd St, Rm 1000, New York, NY, United States, New York 10036, 25 W 43rd St, New York, NY 10036-0364, United States,New York, New York, Manhattan

Event Location & Nearby Stays:

$Asian American \/ Asian Research Institute - City University of New York$