Reading and Conversation! "Let All Our Ghosts Depart" by Meghana Mysore (w/ Anjali Sachdeva)

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RSVP to attend in-store Register for Livestream We are thrilled to welcome regional writer Meghana Mysore to White Whale to celebrate her debut short story collection, Let All Our Ghosts Depart! N ational Book Award Winner Susan Choi describes Let All Our Ghosts Depart as, "visionary stories [where] ex-lovers metamorphose into strangling scarves and three generations of women joyfully transform into rainbow-hued squirrels; the dead refuse their deaths even as the living have to fight to be alive. Every page offers something gorgeous, savage, and unexpected. Mysore is an extraordinary talent, and her work is unforgettable." Meghana Mysore will be joined in conversation by local author and educator, Anjali Sachdeva. In Meghana Mysore's debut short story collection, present-day women and girls of the South Asian diaspora grapple with belonging and are haunted by intergenerational inheritances. Mysore, herself the daughter of Indian immigrants, spins her stories around narrators struggling to assimilate into the surreal world around them. In the world of these stories, ghosts are real--in “Repair Shop,” dead mothers reappear as chiding, broken-down cars; in “Hoarder,” the narrator’s ex-lovers transform into scarves that won't let her go. In another story, a daughter, trapped inside her grief, spends her days Face Timing with her dead father, watching him become a young man she never knew. At turns absurd and darkly humorous, and sometimes speculative, Mysore’s stories touch on re

Who

• Anjali SachdevaAuthor
• Meghana MysoreAuthor

The book

• Let All Our Ghosts DepartMeghana Mysore

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White Whale Bookstore

4754 Liberty Avenue

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