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Sunriver: A Novel Idea Book Discussion

A Novel Idea 2018 Event Type: Adult Program
Age Group(s): Adult
Date: 4/16/2018
Start Time: 6:00 PM
End Time: 7:00 PM
Description:
 Read and discuss "No One Can Pronounce My Name" with friends and neighbors as part of A Novel Idea community reads program.

"No One Can Pronounce My Name" is a distinctive, funny, and insightful look into the lives of people who must reconcile the strictures of their culture and traditions with their own dreams and desires. This tender multigenerational story about immigrants and outsiders takes place in Ohio and follows the lives of several Indian Americans as they struggle with issues of identity, connection and loss while straddling the divide between Eastern and Western cultures.

Rakesh Satyal is the author of "Blue Boy," which won the 2000 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Debut Fiction and the 2010 Prose/Poetry Award from the Association of Asian American Studies. Satyal was a recipient of a 2010 Fellowship in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts and two fellowships from the Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony. His writing has appeared in New York magazine, Vulture, Out magazine, and The Awl. A graduate of Princeton University, he has taught in the publishing program at New York University and has been on the advisory committee for the annual PEN World Voices Festival. He lives in Brooklyn.


Rakesh will be speaking at Bend High on Sunday, May 6. Tickets are free but required and become available on Saturday, April 21 at www.dplfoundation.org or at any branch library.



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Library: Sunriver Public Library
Location: Sunriver Books and Music
Contact: Liz Goodrich
Contact Number: 541-312-1032
Presenter: Sunriver Books & Music
Link: A Novel Idea 2018