Enter to win one of 40 free copies available. Giveaway dates from May 01-May 31, 2021. “Tahmima Anam deftly uses humor to explore both start-up culture a.
IndieBound Heavy lies the high-tech crown in Anamâs spectacular fourth novel (after her Bengal trilogy). Asha Ray, 30, a brilliant computer coder whose PhD project at Harvard involves the âreverse engineering of the brain,â reconnects with Cyrus Jones, a high school crush she hasnât seen in 13 years who has become an itinerant âhumanist spirit guide,â officiating weddings and baptisms for nonreligious people. She abandons her research and the two marry in an impulsive city hall wedding, then move into her parentsâ house on Long Island. Asha and Cyrus find work at Utopia, a tech company whose mission is to âsave humanity from the apocalypse.â There, Asha throws herself into creating an âEmpathy Moduleâ algorithm for a social networking app inspired by Cyrusâs spiritual work. The app, a âvirtual parishâ called WAI (We Are Infinite) becomes a global sensation, and, after Cyrus gets the credit for it, his charis
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With Monica Ali, Tahmima Anam, Nasima Bee and Leesa Gazi
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Sultana s Dream was the utopian creation of Begum Rokeya, a Bengali feminist writer and educator who is widely regarded as a pioneer of women s liberation in South Asia. In the year that Bangladesh turns 50 years old, Tahmima Anam and guests take this visionary work as the starting point to lead a conversation exploring fiction from across the Bangladeshi diaspora.
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No One Is Talking About This (Bloomsbury, February) by Patricia Lockwood, the ‘Poet Laureate of Twitter’, is set to be one of 2021’s buzziest books: a riveting novel about the collision between real and online life.
Meanwhile, the sexy and absurdly readable Luster by Raven Leilani (Picador, January) is an unflinching interrogation of racial and sexual politics that carries ringing endorsements from Zadie Smith and Candice Carty-Williams.
Rahul Raina’s How To Kidnap The Rich (Little Brown, May) has already been optioned by HBO: a Delhi-set, reality TV-based literary crime crossover, it will appeal to fans of Parasite and Crazy Rich Asians.