Join Priyanka Champaneri live in conversation about her new novel The City of Good Death with Marjan Kamali at Asian American Writers’ Workshop.
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 Marjan Kamali, author of The Stationery Shop.
When: Thursday, March 11 at 7:00 pm ET
Where: Asian American Writers’ Workshop via Zoom; please RSVP here. Purchase The City of Good Death from Books Are Magic.
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.
Marjan Kamali is the author of the best-selling novel The Stationery Shop, one of NPR’s best books of 2019 and Together Tea, a Massachusetts Book Award finalist. She received her MFA from New York University and her MBA from Columbia University. Her novels have been translated into a dozen languages and adapted for the stage. She teaches creative writing at GrubStreet.
By Priyanka Champaneri
Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing
Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
Priyanka Champaneri’s transcendent, prize-winning debut novel brings us inside India’s holy city of Banaras, where the manager of a death hostel shepherds the dying who seek the release of a good death, while his own past refuses to let him go.
Hardcover ISBN: 9781632062529
Publication date: Feb 23, 2021
Paperback ISBN: 9781632062536
Publication date: Apr 12, 2022