Join us for an evening with two local authors, Meg Serino and Veena Dinavahi, to discuss their new books!
In Meg Serino’s powerful debut novel ANNAPURNA, a woman returns to the basecamp of the famous mountain in Nepal to confront the events leading up to her best friend’s tragic death there twenty years earlier as well as the nature of their friendship, the meaning of love, and the unexpected consequences of what is spoken — and what is not.
Lauren Groff, author of The Vaster Wilds, says of the novel: “Annapurna carries some of the rare air of the Himalayas in its prose, a novel that’s layered, large, and heady with the complex and overlapping emotions of desire, guilt, love, rage, and complicity. Meg Serino is a wonderful new writer; her debut novel is thrilling.”
Meg Serino earned a Certificate of Creative Writing from Stanford University and an MFA from Bennington College. A novel excerpt, Denial, was published in Narrative magazine and she was a Top 25 finalist for her short story “Thumb into My Palm” in Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers. She was born in New York City and currently resides in Westport, Connecticut.
In Veena Dinavahi’s darkly humorous and wrenchingly sincere memoir, THE TRUE HAPPINESS COMPANY, a young Indian American woman’s dreams of being a well-adjusted college student get wildly derailed when her struggles with mental health land her in the office of a charismatic alternative therapist and his self-help cult.
In this revelatory debut, Veena traces the contours of her life to explore the question that plagued her in the years afterward: how did I fall for that? And what will it mean to move forward?
Veena Dinavahi is an Indian American writer who divides her time between Connecticut and New York. Her personal essays have appeared in The Rumpus and Pulp Magazine. She holds a degree in psychology from Columbia University and currently works in the fashion industry. The True Happiness Company is her first book.
