About This Event

Join us to hear Brick Lane Short Story Prize-shortlisted Karishma Jobanputra discuss her debut story collection! We're very much looking forward to welcoming Karishma Jobanputra to Blackwell's to discuss her electrifying short story collection, The Body Of The Thing, which takes us from first loves and lusts to motherhood and miscarriages, from sexual awakenings to final confrontations with death. Karishma will be in conversation with Sara-Louise Tareen. Doors: 6.30pm. Starts: 6.45pm. Tickets are £5 or admission is free when purchasing a Book & Ticket option or a copy of the book in store ahead of the event. About the book: A lyrical and visceral short story collection, The Body of the Thing unpicks the hierarchies that thrum under our relationships. Moving from bougie neighbourhoods in Manhattan to the sun-drenched piazzas of Italy, from coastal Maine to the bustle of London, these stories chase the fallout when women's bodies are valued for their beauty and youth, dismissed and discarded when ill, or made useful as parents and caregivers. Fluid, sensual, and fearless, The Body of the Thing explores motherhood, body dysmorphia and eating disorders, and celebrates female desire in all its complicated wonder. About the author: Karishma Jobanputra is a British Indian writer who has lived in London and New York and is a graduate of Columbia University’s MFA Fiction programme. Listed for the Brick Lane Short Story Prize 2024 and for the Disquiet Literary Prize for Fiction in 2021 and 2023, she was selected as the winner of the Eilean Shona Writing Workshop scholarship in 2021, where she returned to teach in 2023. Her work has been published in No Tokens Journal, The Rumpus, Wildness Journal, and Columbia Journal, amongst other places. If you cannot make the event but would like a dedicated copy of the book, please email events.manchester@blackwell.co.uk or call us on 0161 274 3331. Our event format is usually a 45 minute discussion between the author and interviewer, followed by a chance for audience members to ask questions. There will be the opportunity to get your book signed/dedicated after the event. Events are a brilliant opportunity to discover new books, meet authors and likeminded readers and learn something new. Support your local bookshop and help us keep the Manchester literary scene vibrant and exciting. You can follow us on Eventbrite and social media (@BlackwellsMCR) to keep up to date on upcoming events.

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