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V. V. Ganeshananthan is the author of Brotherless Night and Love Marriage, which was longlisted for the Women's Prize and named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post. Her work has appeared in Granta, The New York Times, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading, among other publications. A former vice president of the South Asian Journalists Association, she has also served on the board of Asian American Writers' Workshop, and is presently a member of the board of directors of the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies and the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota and co-hosts the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast on Literary Hub, which is about the intersection of l ...more

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Average rating: 4.29 · 8,046 ratings · 1,359 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	Brotherless Night 4.46 avg rating — 6,540 ratings — published 2023 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love Marriage 3.49 avg rating — 929 ratings — published 2008 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014 by Daniel Handler (Goodreads Author) (editor), Lemony Snicket (Goodreads Author) (Introduction), V.V. Ganeshananthan (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.71 avg rating — 521 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flashed: Sudden Stories in Comics and Prose by Josh Neufeld (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sari Wilson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Gina Frangello (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.67 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pushcart Prize XLV: Best of the Small Presses 2021 Edition by Bill Henderson (editor), V.V. Ganeshananthan (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 41 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ploughshares Fall 2013 Guest-Edited by Peter Ho Davies by Peter Ho Davies (Editor), Nick Dybek (Goodreads Author), Sarah Shun-lien Bynum 3.70 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unstuck Vol. 2 by Matt Williamson (Executive Editor), Leanna Petronella, Collin Blair Grabarek 4.19 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Granta Italia n. 1: Lavoro by Salman Rushdie, Chang-rae Lee, V.V. Ganeshananthan (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Imagine the places you grew up, the places you studied, places that belonged to your people, burned. But I should stop pretending that I know you. Perhaps you do not have to imagine. Perhaps your library, too, went up in smoke.”
― V.V. Ganeshananthan, Brotherless Night

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“You can’t just stay in the house studying. You have to see the world yourself—don’t let others tell you what it looks like.”
― V.V. Ganeshananthan, Brotherless Night

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“A working-class girl who narrowly escaped assault filed a complaint,” Anjali wrote. “For her bravery and honesty, much of Jaffna thanked her with rumour.”
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Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan

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Seven Steeples by Sara Baume

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Cox: or The Course of Time by Christoph Ransmayr

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