Book Launch and Celebration-Padma Viswanathan

THE CHARTERHOUSE OF PADMA is a book about multiplicity, betrayal, and recovering yourself. Celebrate the launch of this sharp, insightful new novel from author and beloved professor @padmaviswanathan7792 on Friday, October 4 at 7 p.m.

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Padma Viswanathan’s novels have been published in eight countries and shortlisted for the PEN USA Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and others. She has published short fiction, essays and translations from Brazilian Portuguese in Granta, The Boston Review, BRICK, and elsewhere. Full-length translations include São Bernardo, by Graciliano Ramos and Where We Stand, by Djamila Ribeiro. Her most recent books are Like Every Form of Love: A Memoir of Friendship and True Crime and The Charterhouse of Padma, a novel. She is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas—Fayetteville, where she is Founding Director of the Arkansas International Writer-at-Risk Residency Program.