LIVE- Megha Majumdar: A Burning w/ Nicole Chung

Join us for a live-streamed event in celebration of Megha Majumdar's new novel, A BURNING, which she'll be discussing with Nicole Chung.

Jivan is a Muslim girl from the slums, determined to move up in life, who is accused of executing a terrorist attack on a train because of a careless comment on Facebook. PT Sir is an opportunistic gym teacher who hitches his aspirations to a right-wing political party, and finds that his own ascent becomes linked to Jivan's fall. Lovely--an irresistible outcast whose exuberant voice and dreams of glory fill the novel with warmth and hope and humor--has the alibi that can set Jivan free, but it will cost her everything she holds dear.

Taut, symphonic, propulsive, and riveting from its opening lines, A Burning has the force of an epic while being so masterfully compressed it can be read in a single sitting. Majumdar writes with dazzling assurance at a breakneck pace on complex themes that read here as the components of a thriller: class, fate, corruption, justice, and what it feels like to face profound obstacles and yet nurture big dreams in a country spinning toward extremism. An extraordinary debut.

Megha Majumdar was born and raised in Kolkata, India. She moved to the United States to attend college at Harvard University, followed by graduate school in social anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. She works as an editor at Catapult, and lives in New York City. A Burning is her first book.

Nicole Chung was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. Her debut memoir All You Can Ever Know was a national bestseller, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, and named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, NPR, TIME, and Library Journal, among others. Nicole has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Guardian, GQ, Longreads, and Vulture. She is the editor-in-chief of Catapult magazine and the former managing editor of The Toast. 

To learn more about the authors' books and/or order them, visit: https://booksaremagic.net/megha