A meeting of bright literary minds, as Souvankham Thammavongsa and Avni Doshi join in Indian Summer Festival's Knives and Sugar, streaming to July 17

One author’s work was up for a Giller, while the other’s competed for a Booker Prize

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Indian Summer streams Knives and Sugar on July 10 at 7 pm; available to July 17 at midnight

 

FAST-RISING lit stars Souvankham Thammavongsa and Avni Doshi meet meet for the first time on Indian Summer Festival’s virtual stage Saturday, joining in an intimate conversation with writer and editor Anna Ling Kaye. 

Thammavongsa is best known for her Giller Prize-nominated How to Pronounce Knife, a book of short stories that draw upon her childhood as the daughter of Laotian immigrantsand explore foreignness and belonging.

Doshi’s debut novel Burnt Sugar, meanwhile, was nominated for a Booker Prize for its unsettling story of a fraught mother-daughter relationship.

The books have in common a razor-sharp intelligence, and deep, complex ideas about identity and family--meaning this should be an engrossing, illuminating conversation between two of the lit world's brightest female minds.  

 
 
 
 
 

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