About this Event
South Asia Institute Presents
Dipika Mukherjee: Dialect of Distant Harbors Book LaunchSaturday, October 15, 2022
Dipika Mukherjee
Dipika Mukherjee moved to Chicago from Shanghai in 2012 and spends a lot of time at the neighborhood Harold Washington Public Library. She is the author of the novels Shambala Junction and Ode to Broken Things, and the story collection, Rules of Desire. Her writing is included in The Best Small Fictions 2019 and appears in World Literature Today, Asia Literary Review, Del Sol Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Newsweek, Los Angeles Review of Books, Hemispheres and Orion. She teaches at the Graham School at University of Chicago and at StoryStudio Chicago.
Dialect of Distant Harbors (Available for Purchase at Event)
Dipika Mukherjee
US/UK Publication Date: October 4, 2022
Paper $18.00 • 112 p. • 6 x 9 • 978-1-933880-93-8
This poetry collection explores themes of home, grieving, and kinship.
With wonder, empathy, and even rage, Dialect of Distant Harbors summons a shared humanity to examine issues of illness and family. Dipika Mukherjee’s poems redefine belonging and migration in a misogynistic and racist world. “A grievous vastness to this world,” she writes, “beyond human experience.”
As the world recovers from a global pandemic and the failure of modern government, these poems are incantations to our connections to the human family—whether in Asia, Europe, or the United States. Dialect of Distant Harbors focuses on what is most resilient in ourselves and our communities.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
South Asia Institute, 1925 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, United States
USD 0.00 to USD 18.00