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For the Blessings of Jupiter and Venus is an intimate, funny, and heartbreaking novel about small-town America, the Indian diaspora, and the politics of marriage. "Luminous, brimming with heart and humor and characters so richly imagined they feel like family." Now available!
Thank you Washington Independent Review of Books and The Inner Loop for Publishing this essay: Kamala's Coconut Tree: On South Asian Identity and the American Dream washingtonindependentreviewo… T
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"Novels make me feel alive. It's a sense of connectedness to the world." — Learn how @varungauri made the pivot from economist to novelist as his debut book hits bookshelves. spia.princeton.edu/news/varu….
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One of our fave days of the year - the "Books We Love" interactive list from @NPR is out!
Wonderful to see some of the authors we hosted on the list, such a @PrincetonSPIA's own @varungauri as well as @adellewaldman, @elizagriswold and Amy Tan.
apps.npr.org/best-books/#vie…
Varun Gauri, a former economist at the World Bank, writes modern romance novel about an arranged marriage. centraldesi.beehiiv.com/p/pr…
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#Sundayvibes ... join us @writerscenter today, Sunday, at 3 pm... #DMVwriters #literaryevent #poetrypeople #WritingCommunity #amwriting #amwritingmemoir
I will be in conversation with the wonderful novelist Laura Spence-Ash at Princeton Public Library, Tuesday October 29, 7 pm. Thank you @princetoninfo for this very nice review! communitynews.org/princetoni…
Thank you @WWPHPress and @WIRoBooks!
Yes!! Our 2024 Fiction award-winner is getting noticed! @WIRoBooks now available everywhere —#amreading #amreadingfiction
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Fantastic launch event tonight @PoliticsProse —big thanks to this amazing indie bookstore — and to all who showed up, bought books!! Next stop for WWPH @writerscenter on Sun. Oct. 27 at 3 pm!!
Buy these books!!! #writerslift
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Today! Sunday, October 13 at 5 pm @PoliticsProse (main store on Connecticut Avenue) the launch of our 2024 award-winning books. Debut Authors: @varungauri, Megan Doney, and Chanlee Luu will read. Ffirst editions of their new books! Join us, DMV friends today! #sundayvibes
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Sunday, join us for the Washington Writers' Publishing House Launch (@WWPHPress) to discuss the 2024 winners of its annual poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction manuscript contest, @varungauri, Megan Doney, and @ChanleeLuu - 5PM @ Conn Ave - bit.ly/3BO5KbC
My novel reviewed in the Washington City Paper washingtoncitypaper.com/arti…
Q&A about my debut novel, For the Blessings of Jupiter and Venus, with the amazingly thoughtful Deborah Kalb deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.co…
Thank you WWPH!
Official Pub Day!!! Congratulations to @varungauri !!
Now available everywhere books are sold in trade paperback and ebooks!! We like bookshop.org/lists/washingto…
#debutnovel #writers #India #amreading
Thank you for the kind words Biju. And your perceptive comments!
My friend @varungauri - has just published his debut novel. I had the privilege of reading the manuscript. It is beautifully written and crafted; a delightful, sensitive, and funny exploration of Indian American life that
explores the inner workings and non-workings of a quasi-arranged marriage.
DC friends - Please join me at Politics and Prose Oct 13, 5pm!
Put this on your calender, DC-area writers!! #writerslift #WritingCommunity #dmvwriter @PoliticsProse
Yeah that's a regrettably Eurocentric position.
That is a defensible position but that is not what I am reacting to. It is this kind of thing, which is ubiquitous and feeds into a Huntingtonian perspective on democracy and development which I think is wrong (and also - implicitly - ubiquitous): education.nationalgeographic…
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"AN EXUBERANT DEBUT..." Our 2024 Award-winning fiction is now available for pre-order everywhere books are sold -- and officially on sale one month from today!
#fiction #WritingCommunity #India #publish
