Vauhini Vara Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Vauhini Vara

I devoured it the way I devour any story—written or otherwise—about someone’s affair with their friend’s wife. I should not, I told myself afterward, be so prejudiced against canonical white male writers.

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I could not be prouder to know @kbeccaandrews, whose sensitively reported and beautifully written book NO CHOICE — about the past, present, and future of abortion in America — is out today. We're all shouting from the rooftops today at @lighthousewrite.

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My library is open for outdoor pickups! What are people reading? For beautiful characters & an immersive sense of place, I recommend @Doug_D_Stuart's Shuggie Bain. For great storytelling that'll also teach you about US-China relations, @MaraHvistendahl's The Scientist & the Spy.

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@vanessa_hua Ahh, thank you, Vanessa!!! And I'm so excited for FORBIDDEN CITY!

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I recommended Lan Samantha Chang's THE FAMILY CHAO and Neema Avashia's ANOTHER APPALACHIA in this @NYMag piece — with thanks to @Qidurian for mentioning my work! https://nymag.com/strategist/2022/05/22-aapi-books-recommended-by-asian-american-writers-2022.html

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[A] thrilling puzzlebox of a novel about how identities, gay and otherwise, are performed.

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@TDFcommunity @KaliMaFaja @johnwenzel @denverpost Thank you, Denver Foundation! Same here — and I'm also very excited for new books from Colorado writers Harrison Candelaria Fletcher (Finding Querencia), @ErikaKrouse (Tell Me Everything) & Aby Kaupang (& there’s still you thrill hour of the world to love).

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[Aira's] written more than a 100 novels, last I checked, and I’ve never read one that’s anything less than genius.... [Dinner] started out being about a man and his mother going to a friend’s house for dinner and ended up with a zombie apocalypse.

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@r_gov11 Thanks for reading my work, Radhika. I also recommend @mansi_choksi's The Newlyweds.

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Your summer reading list, from @ELLEmagazine: my novel The Immortal King Rao, @shelbyvanpelt's Remarkably Bright Creatures, @FrancescaMompl1's The Garden of Broken Things, @emmastraub's This Time Tomorrow, and @leilamottley's Nightcrawling! https://t.co/OK7XL7n2wm