About this Event
Sayantani Dasgupta shares her book Brown Women Have Everything at Hub City Bookshop on November 7th at 6 PM. Brown Women Have Everything is a collection of eighteen interwoven essays that celebrate the ties that bind our disparate, global lives together while simultaneously calling out bigotry, bias, and othering. 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.
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About the Book:
As a child growing up in New Delhi, Sayantani Dasgupta wanted to go on adventures involving shipwrecks and treasure chests. Her parents wanted her to stay in school instead. She satisfied her curiosity by drawing maps, inventing languages with friends, and reading everything: English adventures, Russian folktales, Hindi comics, Bengali ghost stories.
Brown Women Have Everything embraces the same spirit of wonder as we follow Dasgupta, 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.
About the Author:
Born in Calcutta and raised in New Delhi, Sayantani Dasgupta is the author of Brown Women Have Everything: Essays on (Dis)comfort and Delight. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Idaho. Previous books include the short story collection Women Who Misbehave, the chapbook The House of Nails: Memories of a New Delhi Childhood, and Fire Girl: Essays on India, America, & the In-Between, a Finalist for the Foreword Indies Awards for Creative Nonfiction. She has been awarded a Centrum Foundation Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize Special Mention, and the WILMA Woman of the Year in Arts for 2022. She is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at UNC Wilmington, and is the founder of Write Wilmington, a community writing workshop. Besides the US, Sayantani has also taught writing in India, Italy, Colombia, and Mexico.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Hub City Bookshop & Press, 186 West Main Street, Spartanburg, United States
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