Parul Kapur

Jul 30, 2024 | therumpus.net | Parul Kapur

Almost two hundred years after the British killed Tipu Sultan, I visited his kingdom in southern India. It was 1990, and I was staying with a family in a middle-class neighborhood in the city of Mysore. A sense of well-being prevailed among people who could afford small bungalows and English-medium schools for their children. Yet, in the eyes of the community, I had an elevated status. I had come from America, the land of dollars and endless opportunity.

Mar 18, 2024 | lithub.com | Parul Kapur

The following is from Parul Kapur's Inside the Mirror. Kapur was born in Assam, India, grew up in the United States, and lives in Atlanta. She is a fiction writer, journalist, and literary critic whose writing has appeared in a number of publications, including Ploughshares, Pleiades, the New Yorker, Art in America, Guernica, Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Paris Review. Kapur holds an MFA from Columbia University.

Feb 20, 2024 | ajc.com | Leah Tyler |Parul Kapur

Atlanta author Parul Kapur’s “Inside the Mirror” is an enveloping work of historical fiction centered on artistic twin sisters coming of age in 1950s Bombay (present-day Mumbai) that delivers an evocative study on the modern art movement in India. The story opens with twins and expands the concept of dual nature into a compelling exploration of the self vs society.

Jan 22, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Parul Kapur |Shilpi Somaya Gowda |Rachel Lyon |Jonathan Buckley

Hari Kunzru. Knopf, $28 (272p) ISBN 978-0-593-80137-6Kunzru (Red Pill) takes on the excessive and rapacious tendencies of the art world in his dazzling latest. Jay, a 40-something undocumented performance artist from India, left behind the competitive milieu of his London art school after becoming disillusioned, and has supported himself with various manual labor jobs. Now, during the first summer of the Covid-19 pandemic, he lives in his car and delivers groceries in Upstate New York.

Jan 21, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Parul Kapur |Shilpi Somaya Gowda |Rachel Lyon |Jonathan Buckley

Marissa Higgins. Catapult, $27 (256p) ISBN 978-1-64622-197-4In Higgins’s striking and visceral debut, a 30-something woman copes with her childhood trauma by nursing a cough syrup addiction and fostering a masochistic relationship with a lesbian couple. Boston attorney Helen pursues serious Catherine and sensitive Katherine, a married couple she met online, hoping for love and acceptance and for them to “mother me meanly.” Woven into the narrative are shards of Helen’s fractured family history.