Join Priyanka Champaneri for an engaging virtual conversation hosted by Bel Canto Books with author Tom Lin of The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu. We’re so excited to continue celebrating the paperback release of Priyanka’s debut novel, The City of Good Death, which won our 2018 New Immigrant Writing Prize!
When: Thursday, July 14 at 5:00 pm PST (8:00pm EST)
Where: Virtual, via Zoom
Participants:
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. Her debut novel, The City of Good Death, won the 2018 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and was recently shortlisted for the 2021 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.
Tom Lin was born in China and immigrated to the United States when he was four. A graduate of Pomona College, he is currently in the PhD program at the University of California, Davis. His first novel, The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu, won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and is a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions award.
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