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Rishi Reddi

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Rishi Reddi was born in Hyderabad, India, grew up in the United Kingdom and the United States, and is a long-time resident of Massachusetts. She attended Swarthmore College and Northeastern Univeristy School of Law. She is the author of Passage West (2020), a Los Angeles Times "Best California Book of 2020," and Karma and Other Stories (2007), which received the L.L. Winship /PEN New England Award for Outstanding Fiction. An essayist, book reviewer and translator, her work appears in Best American Short Stories, was performed on National Public Radio, and was chosen for honorable mention in the Pushcart Prize. She's been awarded Fellowships from the National Book Critics Circle, MacDowell Artists Colony and Breadloaf, and received grants fr ...more

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	Passage West 4.12 avg rating — 871 ratings — published 2020 — 4 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
	Karma and Other Stories 3.79 avg rating — 685 ratings — published 2007 — 9 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
	نقشه‌هایت را بسوزان by Robyn Joy Leff, Jess Row, George Saunders 3.47 avg rating — 140 ratings — published 2002 — 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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“They say rage blinds one, but it is not true. Rage takes away more than sight. It robs hearing and taste, feeling and reason, leaving only the ancient scent of fear and anger and the need to destroy.”
― Rishi Reddi, Passage West

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“He would forever be suspended between two lands, never whole.”
― Rishi Reddi, Passage West

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