Lauren Francis-Sharma

2 months ago | largeheartedboy.com | Lauren Francis-Sharma

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Lauren Francis-Sharma’sCasualties of Truth is a provocative and unsettling novel. The Boston Globe wrote of the book:“Piercing and provocative . . .

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Lauren Francis-Sharma |Atlantic Monthly

CASUALTIES OF TRUTH, by Lauren Francis-SharmaEach of Lauren Francis-Sharma's three novels begins with a calculated killing. In her 2014 debut, "'Til the Well Runs Dry," a desperate Trinidadian girl catches and slaughters a wild opossum to feed her family. In 2020's "Book of the Little Axe," a band of Crow boys stalks and takes down a bighorn sheep on a hunting expedition.

2 months ago | lithub.com | Lauren Francis-Sharma

In 1996, I lived in South Africa and bore witness to testimony given during the Truth and Reconciliation’s Amnesty Hearings. I was a law student interning at a local law firm and took copious notes during the hearing for a paper I would need to write upon my return home. But even after I submitted the paper, I kept my notes, for I was certain I would never experience anything like that again.

2 months ago | citybeat.com | Katherine Barrier |Lauren Francis-Sharma

CityBeat is partnering with Under Cover Book Club on a book-based scavenger hunt in Cincinnati. Every month, the Under Cover Book Club will hide books around the city for you to find with clues posted on social media and CityBeat will publish short reviews of those books to give you a taste of what's to come. These are the reviews of the books — Casualties of Truth, Junie and Listen to Your Sister — that will be hidden in February.

2 months ago | datebook.sfchronicle.com | Lauren Francis-Sharma |Syma Mohammed

Author Lauren Francis-Sharma delves into the horrors of apartheid South Africa in her upcoming novel, “Casualties of Truth." Photo: Sonia Suter/Atlantic Monthly PressIn the late 1990s, Lauren Francis-Sharma attended the Truth and Reconciliation Commission amnesty hearings when she briefly lived in Johannesburg while attending law school.