· The stories in All the Names They Used for God break down genre barriers—from science fiction to American Gothic to magical realism to horror—and are united by each character’s brutal struggle with fate. Like many of us, the characters in this collection are in pursuit of the sublime. [Anjali] Sachdeva’s book, a debut, is notable Brand: Random House Publishing Group. "All the Names They Used for God fuses science, myth, and imagination into a dark and gorgeous series of questions about our current predicaments. Sachdeva is a fascinating storyteller, willing to push her inventiveness as far as it will go, and I cannot wait to see what she writes next.”. Release Date All the Names They Used for God, Anjali Sachdeva’s debut release, is a stellar collection of short stories that explores the strangeness that is the human experience and our small stature in the vastness of the cosmos. Rewards abound for the short story lover: science gone awry in “Pleiades”; abandonment and love gone wrong in “Anything You Might Want”; man versus wild (and 4/5.
Author Will Give Public Reading at Chautauqua Institution on Aug. Chautauqua Institution is delighted to announce Anjali Sachdeva's All the Names They Used for God: Stories (Spiegel Grau) as the winner of The Chautauqua Prize.. As author of the winning book, Sachdeva receives $7, and all travel and expenses for a summer residency at Chautauqua from Aug. 12 to 16, Strange. Wonderful. Delightfully unexpected. These are just some of the words The New York Times book review included in its account of Anjali Sachdeva's work "All the Names They Used for God." The Pitt English professor's short story collection was published in February and quickly gained acclaim, receiving praise from figures such as Roxane Gay and outlets like Harper's Bazaar. Ms. Anjali Sachdeva, in All the Names They Used for God, has brought a new and fresh way of encountering the social issues of the day. Her short story, Manus, is a great example. I used Manus for an 11th grade class focused on catholic social justice.
“All the Names for God” follows two Nigerian women now forging “normal” adult lives after having been kidnapped as teens by extremists, their unimaginable history intertwined with the struggles of acclimating to the world they used to know. "All the Names They Used for God fuses science, myth, and imagination into a dark and gorgeous series of questions about our current predicaments. Sachdeva is a fascinating storyteller, willing to push her inventiveness as far as it will go, and I cannot wait to see what she writes next.”. In 'All The Names They Used For God,' The Magical Meets The Harrowing Author Anjali Sachdeva spins captivating short stories around kernels of the otherworldly. She says it can be a way to.
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