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We’re thrilled to launch The City of Good Death with Priyanka Champaneri live in conversation with Grace Talusan at Greenlight Bookstore.

Priyanka’s transcendent debut, winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, immerses us in India’s holy city of Banaras, where pilgrims go to die a good death and be released from the cycle of reincarnation. The City of Good Death is “a breathtaking, unforgettable novel” (Foreword Reviews, Starred Review), “exquisite” (Booklist), and “epic, magical” (Publishers Weekly). She’ll be joined by Grace Talusan, fellow winner of the Prize for New Immigrant Writing for her memoir The Body Papers.

When: Tuesday, February 23 at 7:30 pm ET

Where: Greenlight Bookstore (Brooklyn, NY) via Zoom. Purchase The City of Good Death from Greenlight.

Priyanka Champaneri received her MFA in creative writing from George Mason University and has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts numerous times. She received the 2018 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing for The City of Good Death, her first novel.

Grace Talusan's first book, The Body Papers, is a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection, winner of the Massachusetts Book Award for Nonfiction, and winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing. She was born in the Philippines and raised in New England. She graduated from Tufts University and the MFA Program in Writing at UC Irvine. She is the recipient of a U.S. Fulbright Fellowship to the Philippines and an Artist Fellowship Award from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She taught writing for many years at Tufts University and Grub Street. Currently, Talusan is the Fannie Hurst Writer-in-Residence at Brandeis University. 

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