SAMINA ALI
Monday, January 24 at 7:30 p.m.

Co-presented with JAZBAH and CHAYA. Born in Hyderabad, raised in India and the U.S., residing now in California (with an MFA in Oregon along the way) is debut novelist Samina Ali. First published a year ago, Madras on Rainy Days (new in paper, Picador) is the story of a young Indian-American Muslim woman caught between countries and traditions as she seeks to make her way into the world. "This book goes to a place where few, if any, of its predecessors have gone before . . . A deeply feminist novel with richly drawn and complicated characters." - Ms. "With her debut novel, Samina Ali makes a bold entrance on the scene of American immigrant literature. Ali is a compelling storyteller. In language that is at once lyrical and unsentimental, she explores both the upside and downside of being a first-generation Muslin Indo-American woman. A must-read for anyone interested in understanding the multicultural fabric of contemporary America." - Bharati Mukherjee. For more information on Jazbah, please see www.jazbah.org; for more on Chaya, please visit www.chayaseattle.org.

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