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Sayantani Dasgupta

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in Calcutta, India

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http://www.sdasgupta.com/

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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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Average rating: 3.97 · 224 ratings · 62 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	Women Who Misbehave 3.74 avg rating — 122 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 4.53 avg rating — 55 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 3.78 avg rating — 41 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) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 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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A few great reminders. Even more than the text, it’s the drawings by the artist Chris Riddell that have my heart!
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Started strong. Interesting premise. Overall, the book was about 75 pages too long.
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Quick read. Interesting characters. More than anything else, I loved that the main character—a young police officer named Helgi—loves reading crime fiction in his spare time. And not just any crime fiction. But from what’s called the Golden Age of De ...more
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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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