We're proud to be publishing the acclaimed Indian author Githa Hariharan's book of travel essays, Almost Home: Finding a Place in the World from Kashmir to New York. In a series of engrossing and politically charged essays, Hariharan explores some of the world’s most radiant—and radioactive—places, across both time and space. A great fan of Hariharan’s, J.M. Coetzee frames her book this way:
“In essays that bespeak a thoroughly cosmopolitan sensibility, Githa Hariharan not only takes us on illuminating tours through cities rich in history, but gives a voice to urban people from all over the world—Kashmir, Palestine, Delhi—trying to live with basic human dignity under circumstances of dire repression or crushing poverty.”
In Almost Home, Githa Hariharan offers a timely perspective on our post-colonial, rapidly globalizing world via some of its most contested places—Delhi, Mumbai, Kashmir, Palestine, Algeria, Tokyo, Washington, New York—posing the questions, to whom does a city belong, and what makes a place “home”?
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We're delighted that Githa will be touring the US this Spring. Catch her in person and pick up a copy of Almost Home at these events:
Author Tour and Events:
March 22: “Mapping Asian American New York” with Meena Alexander and Peter Kwong at Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College (New York, NY)
March 23: “Reclaiming Home: Resisting Exclusion in India Today” at Rutgers (New Brunswick, NJ)
March 24: In Conversation with Anjali Singh at McNally Jackson (New York, NY)
March 25: “Narrating Contested Homes: Fiction and Real Life" at New York University (New York, NY)
March 28: “Portraits of India” with Somini Sengupta at Asian American Writers Workshop (New York, NY)
April 4: Indo American Arts Council and South Asian Journalists Association at Columbia University (New York, NY)
April 7: Living Writers speaker series at UC Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA)
April 8: talk at UC Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA)
April 13: “Making Dreams Travel: Narrating Indian Women” at UC Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)