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Tuesday, September 22nd | 6:00-7:00pm

Wednesday, September 23rd | 4:00-5:00pm

Author and essayist Divya Victor will be coming to Barnard on 9/24 for her interactive talk/workshop (RSVP here) and to also discuss and share her upcoming essay collection KIN (2027) and previous collection CURB (2021)! In honor of her visit to campus, the Creative Writing Fellows will be hosting a book club to read and discuss her essay collection CURB, a "profound act of poetic debridement for the South Asian American diaspora, and an insistent plea to resist erasure" (NPR). There will be two separate sessions (9/22 & 9/23), and participants are welcome to attend one or both. Copies of CURB will be provided for attendees--- we hope to see you there!

About the book: CURB maps our post-9/11 political landscape by locating the wounds of domestic terrorism at unacknowledged sites of racial and religious conflict across cities and suburbs of the United States. 

Divya Victor documents how immigrants and Americans navigate the liminal sites of everyday living: lawns, curbs, and sidewalks undergirded by violence but also constantly repaved with new possibilities of belonging. CURB witnesses immigrant survival, familial bonds, and interracial parenting in the context of nationalist and white-supremacist violence against South Asians. The book refutes the binary of the model minority and the monstrous, dark “other” by reclaiming the throbbing, many-tongued, vermillion heart of kith.

Upcoming Events

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CWF Book Club: CURB by Divya Victor