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Sayantani Dasgupta

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in Calcutta, India

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An alumna of St. Stephen’s College and JNU, Sayantani Dasgupta received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Idaho. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She is the author of Women Who Misbehave (Penguin Random House); Fire Girl: Essays on India, America, & the In-Between—a Finalist for the Foreword Indies Awards for Creative Nonfiction—and the chapbook The House of Nails: Memories of a New Delhi Childhood. Her writing has appeared in over 50 literary journals and magazines, including, The Hindu, The Rumpus, Scroll, Economic & Political Weekly, IIC Quarterly, Chicago Quarterly Review, and others. She has been awarded a Centrum Foundation Fellowship, and a Pushcart Pri ...more

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	Women Who Misbehave 3.73 avg rating — 125 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fire Girl: Essays on India, America, and the In-Between 4.50 avg rating — 56 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brown Women Have Everything: Essays on (Dis)comfort and Delight 3.68 avg rating — 53 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	South to South: Writing South Asia in the American South by Khem K. Aryal (Editor), Sindya Bhanoo (Contributor), Jenny Bhatt (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Sayantani Dasgupta rated a book really liked it A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy by Tia Levings (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Sayantani Dasgupta rated a book really liked it The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Terrifying. Claustrophobic. Slow burn. Leaves many things to the reader’s imagination. That everything happens inside a modern high rise building with every amenity adds to the discomfort. A chilling reminder of modern capitalism and everything it up ...more
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Sayantani Dasgupta rated a book really liked it Heart Lamp: Selected Stories by Banu Mushtaq	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Deeply moving. Haunting. I felt like I’d been plopped in a neighborhood full of interesting/flawed characters and someone who knows everyone well was sitting next to me, filling in on the details. I will think about the story Black Cobras for a long ...more
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Sayantani Dasgupta rated a book really liked it The Undesired by Yrsa Sigurdardottir	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This is the second book I’ve read by Sigurdardottir. Eerie. Atmospheric. Slow burn. Two timelines that intersect in a clever way. The choice of “villains” and their motivations is unexpected.
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Sayantani Dasgupta rated a book really liked it Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Wonderful. Funny. Heartbreaking. I liked the protagonist and her frantic energy and gaze of the world very much. I also liked the ending but maybe the author could have spent more time on the last chapter.
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Sayantani Dasgupta rated a book really liked it Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I liked this novel’s nods to folklore and horror. My favorite character was Lena and I wished for more depth for her as the story progressed.
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Several spectacular things: the protagonist who is an archaeoentomologist, the Voice, the characters especially Mr. Pressley, the neighborhood vultures, the cool facts about teeth and roses. The last 25% of the book, however, did not do it for me. I ...more
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Sayantani Dasgupta rated a book liked it We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Extremely interesting premise. You let in people out of politeness and to not cause offense but then they refuse to leave. As the story moves, there are perhaps just too many digressions. A lot of work and research went into this novel and I found th ...more
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Original and inventive. Also the kind of book that teaches you a whole bunch of stuff by referencing other short stories, essays, movies, music, fairy tales, and true crime.
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“Now, of course, you can’t walk in any Indian city without running into a café selling everything from mochas to cappuccinos to that monstrosity known unironically as chai latte containing ingredients such as maple syrup and vanilla extract. Either commit to a chai or to a coffee, people. What kind of daily indecisiveness do you battle that you must find ways to marry the two?”
― Sayantani Dasgupta, Brown Women Have Everything: Essays on (Dis)comfort and Delight

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“If you didn’t consider our faces, hair, language, food, and about fifty other categories, Ha-Yun and I could have been twins! No wonder Kathy got confused.”
― Sayantani Dasgupta, Brown Women Have Everything: Essays on (Dis)comfort and Delight

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