Sathian then read the end of the first chapter of “Gold Diggers” to the webinar audience. Literati describes the novel as “a brilliant Indian-American magical realist coming of age story and the debut of a major talent.”Īfter her introduction, Sathian began by stating that she used to spend every summer in Ann Arbor for debate camp, “like all cool people do.” Sathian and Thankam Mathews both agreed that Literati is legendary, and they were happy to be speaking even in the virtual space of the bookstore. ” Sathian has been on both sides of headlines: Her reporting has been published in The Washington Post, The LA Times, The New York Times and TIME Magazine, while “Gold Diggers,” has already garnered praise from NPR, The Washington Post and The New York Times Book Review in its few-week lifespan. Though I’ve been to quite a few of these events, my absolute favorite was a conversation between two up-and-coming authors, Sanjena Sathian and Sarah Thankam Mathews, last Friday night.įriday’s event featured a book reading and Q&A session for Sathian’s debut novel “Gold Diggers. I started attending the book store’s “Fiction at Literati” speaker series over a year ago for Daily Arts reviews like this one, and now I log on to the Zoom webinars on my own time several times a month to listen and learn from the impressive, intelligent authors calling in from all over the country. “At Home with Literati” has quickly become one of my favorite parts of Ann Arbor community culture.
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