FBC30: Ruchika Tomar, author of A Prayer for Travelers
Feminist Book Club: The Podcast
English - June 27, 2019 09:30 - 30 minutes - 41.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 79 ratingsBooks Arts Society & Culture authors books feminism feministbooks fiction literature nonfiction subscriptionbox Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
"A lot of stories that are American West stories are about white men so I wanted to tell a story set in the American West that is about women of color." - Ruchika Tomar
Ruchika Tomar grew up in the Inland Empire, California. She holds a BA in English Literature from the University of California Irvine and an MFA from Columbia University. She has received fellowships from The Center for Fiction, The MacDowell Colony and Stanford University, where she was a former Stegner Fellow. A Prayer for Travelers is her first novel.
Connect with Ruchika on her website or Instagram @aprayerfortravelers.
Ruchika's book recommendation: Elizabeth Tallent's memoir Snatched, due out February 2020
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