Program Description
Event Details
Welcoming Falls Church, AAUW, Falls Church Education Foundation, and MRSPL will host author Sindya Bhanoo for a public talk to discuss her book Seeking Fortune Elsewhere, which features eight short stories focused on the experiences of immigrants from South India, specifically through the eyes of women in families.
Seeking Fortune Elsewhere is the winner of the 2022 New American Voices Award, winner of the 2023 Oregon Book Award for Fiction, a Finalist for the 2023 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, the winner of the Writers League of Texas Book Award, and was longlisted for the 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence and the Sergio Troncosco Award for Best First Book in Fiction.
The goal of this Welcoming Week event is to help provide a cultural moment of reflection for the community and help raise awareness of the connections they have with immigrants and to promote the work that Welcoming Falls Church does to help families get settled and deal with the challenges that come with immigration and adjusting to a new country and culture.
About the Author
Sindya Bhanoo is the recipient of an O. Henry Award and the Disquiet Literary Prize. She has worked as a newspaper reporter for the Washington Post and the New York Times and has received multiple awards for her reporting, including from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Currently, she teaches as an Assistant Professor at Oregon State University.
Want to Read the Book?
- Bards Alley Bookshop will be at the event selling copies of Seeking Fortune Elsewhere!
- Also, through Friday, September 13 (the day before the event) the ebook and eaudiobook are available to borrow without any waitlist through the library's Libby/Overdrive collection. Borrow item now...