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Vandana Nair with Renee Simms

Tuesday, August 11, 2026 · 7:00 PM PDT · Elliott Bay Book Company
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Vandana Nair with Renee Simms
Vandana Nair discusses her novel 'The Wedding' with Renee Simms, author of 'Meet Behind Mars'. The novel follows epidemiologist Dr. Ahilya Kapoor as she attends a lavish wedding in India and deals with family tensions and a mysterious illness.

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  • Vandana Nair writes novellas, novelettes, reviews, and essays nurtured from her roots in India. Her work explores gender, class, linguistic diversity, and cultural traditions that still dominate contemporary life. In her stories, she captures the ordinary—rituals, patterns, and dilemmas—unique to the Asian landscape. Fiction can be a way to explore consciousness.

  • Renee Simms

    Renee Simms is an associate professor of African American Studies and contributing faculty to English Studies at University of Puget Sound. Originally from Detroit, she received her B.A. in literature from University of Michigan, a J.D. from Wayne State University Law School, and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Arizona State University.

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1521 10th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122, USA · Capitol Hill, Seattle

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