Sindya Bhanoo (author of the highly acclaimed debut short story collection Seeking Fortune Elsewhere) and bestselling author Thrity Umrigar (Honor, a Reese’s Book Club Pick) discuss their latest work, each of which centers the lives of South Asian women in India and throughout the Indian diaspora. Bhanoo, a longtime newspaper reporter, and Umrigar, whose main character in Honor is a reporter herself, discuss, too, how journalistic curiosity, an eye for detail, and an investigative nature influence their fiction.

Moderator: James Magnuson, former twenty-three-year director of the Michener Center for Writers, author of Famous Writers I Have Known, and Texas Writer Award recipient (2018)Sindya Bhanoo, Thrity Umrigar, Seeking Fortune Elsewhere, Honor