Join short-story writer Gemini Wahhaj and Becky Tuch, editor of LitMag news for the book launch of Gemini's short-story collection Katy Family. Combining the powers of speculation of Kazuo Ishiguro and the sharp social critique of Aravind Adiga, this collection offers readers the ultimate experience of global fiction, stories bound and shaped by Katy, Texas, a place made by oil and capitalism. The stories weave between Bangladeshi characters experiencing the reality of the immigrant experience in America and those still in Bangladesh, wishing for the mythos of the American dream.
Gemini Wahhaj is also the author of the novel The Children of This Madness (713Books, 2023). Her fiction is in or forthcoming in Granta, Third Coast, River Styx, Chicago Quarterly Review, and other magazines. She has a PhD in creative writing from the University of Houston, where she received the James A. Michener Award for fiction (judged by Claudia Rankine) and the Cambor/Inprint Fellowship.
Becky Tuch is a fiction and nonfiction writer, based in Philadelphia. Her work has appeared in a variety of venues including Salon, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Virginia Quarterly Review, Gulf Coast and Best of the Net. Her short fiction has been honored with awards and fellowships from Moment Magazine, Briar Cliff Review, The Somerville, MA Arts Council and The MacDowell Colony. She is also the Founder of the popular Substack Lit Mag News. Learn more at www.BeckyTuch.com.
“Wahhaj’s stories are addictive--richly observed, thrumming with sly depictions of ambition and hypocrisy, painting a luminous panorama of an American subculture in all its comic and tender complexity.” —Elizabeth McKenzie, MacGregor Tells the World and Stop That Girl.