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Book Club: CURB & KIN by Divya Victor

Tues 9/22 | 6:00-7:00pm

Wed 9/23 | 4:00-5:00pm


Author and essayist Divya Victor will be coming to Barnard on Thursday, September 24 for her interactive talk & workshop and to also discuss and share her upcoming essay collection KIN (2027) and previous collection CURB (2021)!

In honor of her upcoming 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 (Tuesday 9/22 & Wednesday 9/23), and participants are welcome to attend one or both. Copies of CURB and an excerpt of KIN will be provided prior, ONLY for attendees— we hope to see you there!

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.

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