Loneliness and Connection Across Space and Time
On Thursday, March 12, Kiran Desai '93 was a guest speaker at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, CA, as part of UCLA professor Mona Simpson's "Some Favorite Writers" series.
Reports The Daily Bruin:
"Kiran Desai explored loneliness and connection across space and time at the Hammer Museum on Thursday.
"Desai – the Booker Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard and The Inheritance of Loss – spoke with UCLA professor Mona Simpson in this year’s final iteration of Simpson’s “Some Favorite Writers” series. Desai read the opening pages of her third novel, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny. Desai said her newest book chronicles the love story between Sonia and Sunny, two young Indian students living in the United States, while delving into the various forms of loneliness in their lives .
“'As I wrote across geographies and generations, I realized I could widen the scope of my novel to write about loneliness in a much broader sense – not just romantic loneliness but the huge divides of class and race, the distrust between nations and the swift vanishing of a past world,' Desai said."