Book Launch for PEACOCKS OF INSTAGRAM by Deepa Rajagopalan

Join us for the Book Launch for PEACOCKS OF INSTAGRAM by Deepa Rajagopalan!

Come celebrate with us at Society Clubhouse on May 18, 2024 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm.

The evening will include:

• A reading from the book
• A Q&A with Souvankham Thammavonsga, where we will discuss the book, the short story form and other things!
• Music and a performance by a special, surprise guest
• Book signing (Books courtesy of Another Story Bookshop)
• Refreshments

Pre-orders go a long way. You can pre-order Peacocks of instagram here.

The Society Clubhouse is a women-owned, community-driven space that includes a taproom, event space, and an artisan market.

About PEACOCKS OF INSTAGRAM

Engrossing, witty yet devastating stories about diasporic Indians that deftly question what it means to be safe, to survive, and to call a place home.

In these fresh and intimate stories, Deepa Rajagopalan centers a cast of Indian women who are flawed, enterprising, and filled with desire. In the award-winning title story, an underappreciated coffee shop server haunted by her past attracts thousands of followers on social media with her peacock jewelry. A hotel housekeeper up against a world of gender and class inequity quietly gets revenge on her chauvinist boss. A fiercely independent engineer does not decamp to the sidelines of an affair but takes up space, living her life as variously as possible. A foster child, orphaned in an accident directly attributable to climate change brings down her foster father, an oil lobbyist, in spectacular fashion.

With an intense awareness of privilege and the lack of it, the fourteen stunning stories in Peacocks of Instagram explore the complexities of love, loss, and desire, and the weight they carry.

About Souvankham Thammavongsa:

Souvankham Thammavongsa is the author of four poetry books, and the short story collection HOW TO PRONOUNCE KNIFE, winner of the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize and 2021 Trillium Book Award, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and PEN America Open Book Award, out now with Little, Brown (U.S.), McClelland & Stewart (Canada), and Bloomsbury (U.K.), available in French, with foreign rights sold in China, Korea, Poland, and Turkey. Her stories have won an O. Henry Award and appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, Granta, and NOON. She has also written book reviews for The New York Times, and edited the anthologies Best Canadian Poetry (2021) and The Griffin Poetry Prize (2021).

About Deepa Rajagopalan:

Deepa Rajagopalan won the 2021 PEN Canada New Voices Award for her short story “Peacocks of Instagram.” Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in literary magazines such as The New Quarterly, Room Magazine, The Malahat Review, and the anthologies like the Bristol Short Story Prize 2023. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph.