Authors Tiphanie Yanique and Jai Chakrabarti with Anderson Tepper

Join us for a Zoom talk with Tiphanie Yanique, author of Monster in the Middle, and Jai Chakrabarti, author of A Play for the End of the World, as they discuss their new novels with Anderson Tepper.

How are legacies passed down through generations—informing who and how we love, our ideas of art and resistance, the very essence of our lives and times? In Tiphanie Yanique’s highly-anticipated second novel, Monster in the Middle, a modern-day love affair must contend with a history of other journeys and relationships. While Jai Chakrabarti’s debut novel, A Play for the End of the World, links episodes from the Warsaw Ghetto with the political upheaval of 1970s India through the powers of a Rabindranath Tagore play. What are our shared inheritances and how does a novelist choose to stitch these stories together?

Tiphanie Yanique is the author of Land of Love and Drowning, How to Escape from a Leper Colony, and Wife. Winner of The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Fiction, among other awards, she is originally from the Virgin Islands and now lives in Atlanta where she is a professor at Emory University.

Jai Chakrabarti’s short fiction has been anthologized in The O. Henry Prize Stories and The Best American Short Stories. He was an Emerging Writer Fellow with A Public Space and received his MFA from Brooklyn College. His book of stories, A Small Sacrifice for Enormous Happiness, will come out next year. Born in Kolkata, India, Chakrabarti now lives in Brooklyn.

Anderson Tepper is co-chair of the International Committee of the Brooklyn Book Festival and has written for The New York Times Book Review, Vanity Fair, World Literature Today, and Words without Borders, among other publications.

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