Where We Stand

The instant bestseller from Djamila Ribeiro that sparked a major Black feminist movement in Brazil In a society shaped by the legacies of enslavement, white supremacy, and sexism, who has the right to a voice? In this elegant essay, Djamila ……
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The Charterhouse of Padma

Two women, living in America’s heartland, unearth shocking secrets about the men they love and question the lives they chose. P is on deadline. She should be translating. Instead, she’s writing obsessively about her favorite color: chartreuse. A literary translator in Arkansas (of all places), ……
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Like Every Form of Love

From the Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist, a gripping exploration of class, race, friendship, sexuality, what an author owes her subject and what it means to be a good person—all wrapped up in a riveting Canadian true crime story. Padma Viswanathan ……
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São Bernardo

A masterwork about backcountry life by one of Brazil’s most celebrated novelists. Paulo Honório is a sometime field hand who has kicked and clawed and schemed his way to prosperity, becoming master of the decrepit estate São Bernardo, where once ……
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Carnival Week

This is the first and only piece of fiction I have ever set in Brazil. I first went there in 1999 (I think) to do research toward a play. The play never congealed, but my interest in Brazil, which was ……
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The Ever After of Ashwin Rao

From internationally acclaimed New Face of Fiction author Padma Viswanathan, a stunning new work set among families of those who lost loved ones in the 1985 Air India bombing, registering the unexpected reverberations of this tragedy in the lives of ……
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The Toss of a Lemon

The debut novel of Random House’s 2008 New Face of Fiction: “This soaring new novel, inspired by the author’s family history, will draw comparisons to The God of Small Things, but Viswanathan has a voice and a vision all her ……
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