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SUMMARY:Reading and Conversation! "Let All Our Ghosts Depart" by Meghana 
 Mysore (w/ Anjali Sachdeva)
DESCRIPTION:RSVP to attend in-store Register for Livestream We are thrill
 ed 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 squ
 irrels\; the dead refuse their deaths even as the living have to fight t
 o be alive. Every page offers something gorgeous\, savage\, and unexpect
 ed. Mysore is an extraordinary talent\, and her work is unforgettable." 
 Meghana Mysore will be joined in conversation by local author and educat
 or\, Anjali Sachdeva. In Meghana Mysore's debut short story collection\,
  present-day women and girls of the South Asian diaspora grapple with be
 longing and are haunted by intergenerational inheritances. Mysore\, hers
 elf the daughter of Indian immigrants\, spins her stories around narrato
 rs struggling to assimilate into the surreal world around them. In the w
 orld 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 w
 ith 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\n\nTickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/let-all-ou
 r-ghosts-depart-by-meghana-mysore-w-anjali-sachdeva-tickets-200063735217
 6\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/baa38c8a-a350-4277-8aec-3309c007f
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LOCATION:White Whale Bookstore\, 4754 Liberty Avenue
URL:https://findlocal.community/event/baa38c8a-a350-4277-8aec-3309c007f72
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