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UPCOMING EVENTS
OCTOBER
8th-10th: Southern Festival of Books, Nashville, TN
16th-17th: Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX
23-24th: The Loft, Minneapolis, MN
PRIOR EVENTS
July 13th: Watchung Books, Montclair, New Jersey, Meet the Author for teens and their moms: Nice turnout with teen girls and their mothers–a little texting and the joint grew even more crowded!
July 8th, “Left Out: Stories of Immigration and Exile” sponsored by SAWCC at the Asian American Writers Workshop, with Tania James and Rinku Sen.
On Sunday, May 2nd, I launched Tell Us We’re Home at Words Bookstore in Maplewood. There were definitely a few nods of recognition at the mention of Ultimate Frisbee, nannies walking up from the train cradling their Dunkin’ Donut coffees, a quaint Main Street with evergreens twirled around the lampposts at Christmastime …
… the bookstore filled with readers eager to listen to the author read and discuss her work.”
Article in The Maplewood Patch: Local Author Explores Immigration and Suburban Assimilation
On Thursday, May 13th, I had a New York City book launch at the Center for Fiction, 17 East 47th Street, at 6:30 p.m. Nice crowd.
Article in Masalajunction.com
On Saturday, June 5th, I visited SAYA! out in Queens for an event sponsored by the Asian American Writers Workshop.
Thursday, June 17th, Revolution Books, 146 West 26th Street, 7 p.m. for a reading and discussion about immigration.
On Friday, June 25th, at 7:30 p.m., I participated in the event “Many Voices, One Nation,” at the annual American Library Association conference in Washington, D.C. I’ll also be signing at the Simon and Schuster booth on Saturday, June 26th, from 2-3:00. Please stop by!
ARTICLES, REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS
Upstairs, Downstairs, Jersey-style, The New York Times
Interview on ITV, Shabd Star, May 30th, 3:30 p.m. and June 4th, 2 p.m.
Uma Krishnaswami’s Broken Tusk
If You’re Just Joining Us: Author Interview with Jon Armstrong
Budhos Speaks Up For Muslim Immigrants in a Post 9/11 World, DNA World
Undocumented and Invisible: India Currents
Ask Me No Questions: Tell Me No Stereotypes
Interview, Geolino magazine (Germany)
In Search of Her Roots: An Interview in Rediff.com
The Professor of Light: The Austin Chronicle
Caught Between Worlds, Shadow and Light, Newsday
Child of Many Cultures: India Today
In the Arms of an Obsession, The Telegraph
Continental Divide: A. Magazine
Marina Budhos Goes Home Again: Gravity, Family & Country, Austin Chronicle