Indian-American author Kiran Desai’s debut novel, 1998’s Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was followed by 2006’s The Inheritance of Loss, which won the Booker Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award. (Desai was then the youngest woman to win the Booker Prize at age 35.) Nearly 20 years later, Desai, who lives in New York, unveils her third novel, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, a modern-day romance between two young Indian writers that takes place from 1996 to 2002, and is set in India and on the East Coast. Hosted by Kepler’s Literary Foundation, Desai discusses her new work with fellow writer Ellen Sussman.
Sun, Sept 21, 5pm; $22
Kepler’s Books, Menlo Park
