Chaya Bhuvaneswar & Genevieve Hudson
Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR, United StatesFrom Mother Foucault's Website: Join Chaya Bhuvaneswar Saturday, September 29 for a reading from her forthcoming short story collection White Dancing Elephants (Dzanc, 2018). Chaya reads with Genevieve Hudson, author of Pretend We Live Here (Future Tense, 2018) In luminous, vivid, searingly honest prose, the stories in White Dancing Elephants center on the experiences of diverse women of color—cunning, bold, and resolute—facing sexual harassment and racial violence, as well as the violence women inflict upon each other. Combining the speculative elements and wry psychological realism beloved by readers of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Margaret Atwood, Danzy Senna and Sandra Cisneros, this collection introduces Chaya Bhuvaneswar as an original and memorable new voice. CHAYA BHUVANESWAR is a practicing physician and writer whose work has appeared in Narrative Magazine, Tin House, Michigan…