Author Talk: Parini Shroff with Tanya Žilinskas

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Parini Shroff, bestselling author of The Bandit Queens, presents her newest novel, Some People in this special conversation with Tanya Žilinskas at the Mill Valley Library.

A man on the brink of divorce is forced to care for his injured future-ex-mother-in-law in this wise, witty, and heartfelt novel.

Malti Patel is absolutely fine. Concussed and bruised, maybe, but fine. Certainly fine enough to not need her daughter’s soon-to-be-ex-husband, Nathan Whitlock, playing nurse in her home while she recuperates. And yet, that’s exactly the quandary in which she finds herself. Her doctor insists on in-home supervision for seven days, and with her daughter, Kavya, abroad at grad school in India, Nathan proves too much of a do-gooder to let Malti rehabilitate alone. Seven days of Nathan, the man divorcing her daughter for all manner of reasons: cultural misunderstanding, emotional walls, simmering hostility…most of them having to do with Kavya’s baggage from her childhood.

Rich with emotional depth, Some People paints a nuanced portrait of love, forgiveness, and our timeless quest for understanding and acceptance.

Parini Shroff is the bestselling author of The Bandit Queens, which was a Good Morning America Buzz Pick, a PEN Open Book finalist, and longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal and the Women’s Prize for Fiction. She received her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin. She is a practicing attorney and currently lives in the Bay Area.

Tanya Žilinskas’s fiction has appeared in publications like The Sun, EPOCH, Chicago Quarterly Review, Southern Humanities Review, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, and Puerto del Sol. Her writing has received support from Bread Loaf, the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference, the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, Writing By Writers, the Center for Cultural Innovation, and the University of San Francisco. She’s the founder and host of the BAIT Reading Series.

Our bookseller for this event will be the Friends of the Mill Valley Library Bookstore.

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