Get Hooked on THE ATLAS OF REDS AND BLUES by Devi S. Laskar
Channel: San Francisco Public Library
Date: 2021-08-04

When a woman—known only as Mother—moves her family from Atlanta to its wealthy suburbs, she discovers that neither the times nor the people have changed since her childhood in a small Southern town. Despite the intervening decades, Mother is met with the same questions: Where are you from? No, where are you really from? The American–born daughter of Bengali immigrants, she finds that her answer―Here―is never enough.

Drawing inspiration from the author’s own terrifying experience of a raid on her home, Devi S. Laskar’s debut novel explores, in exquisite, lyrical prose, an alternate reality that might have been.

Check out a copy of THE ATLAS OF REDS AND BLUES at the San Francisco Public Library (https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S93C3663485) or purchase on from you local independent bookstore: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781640091535

Devi S. Laskar is a native of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and holds an MFA from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in Tin House and Rattle, among other publications. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and is an alumna of The OpEd Project and VONA. The Atlas of Reds and Blues is her first novel. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Tuesday, August 10 at 7pm (PT), Devi Laskar reads from her acclaimed novel, The Atlas of Reds and Blues, and gives a short talk about building a sustainable writing practice. https://youtu.be/vk6qdxuWyOQ