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503-436-1391
When searching for a better life, immigrants often leave their families behind. Author Sindya Bhanoo will share South Indian immigrants’ stories in her prize-winning novel, Seeking Fortune Elsewhere, when she visits the Cannon Beach Library at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 20.
Bhanoo’s appearance is part of the Oregon Book Awards Authors Tour, presented in partnership with Literary Arts and hosted by the library’s NW Authors Series.
Seeking Fortune Elsewhere won the 2023 Ken Kesey Award. The award is part of the Oregon Book Awards, presented annually by Literary Arts to honor and celebrate the work of Oregon’s authors.
Seeking Fortune Elsewhere features intimate stories of South Indian immigrants and the families they left behind. It asks how women both claim and surrender power. Occurringin places including Pittsburgh, eastern Washington andTamil Nadu, these stories focus on dislocation and howimmigrants and their families confront the costs of leaving, staying and growing apart.
A fiction writer and journalist, Bhanoo also won the New American Voices Award. In 2021, she won an O. Henry Prize. She worked as a reporter for The New York Times and The Washington Post and teaches creative writing and journalism at Oregon State University.
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