Houston Friends, join me for my book launch at Basket Books and Art on Tuesday, April 22, at 7 PM
Houston friends, I will be reading with Chaitali Sen at Basket Books and Art on April 22 at 7 PM to celebrate the publication of my new book Katy Family. I will be honored if you can make it to celebrate with me.
Book launch: Katy Family by Gemini Wahhaj
Tuesday Apr 22nd, 2025
7:00 PM-9:00 PM
Basket Books & Art
115 Hyde Park Blvd
Houston, TX
USA 7700
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Combining the powers of speculation of Kazuo Ishiguro and the sharp social critique of Aravind Adiga, this collection offers readers the ultimate experience of global fiction, stories bound and shaped by Katy, Texas, a place made by oil and capitalism. The stories weave between Bangladeshi characters experiencing the reality of the immigrant experience in America and those still in Bangladesh, wishing for the mythos of the American dream. Katy, an oil-rich suburb of Houston, serves as the background and ultimate symbol of global capitalism. The stories deliver the reality and impact of isolation, materialism, and the looming climate disaster. With sharp intelligence and humor, Wahhaj explores the oil industry's destructive effect on those who live within Texas and those far beyond its borders
Gemini Wahhaj is the author of the novel The Children of this Madness (7.13 Books), and the short-story collection Katy Family (Jackleg Press). Her fiction is in or forthcoming in Granta, Third Coast, River Styx, Chicago Quarterly Review, and other magazines. She has a PhD in creative writing from the University of Houston, where she received the James A. Michener award for fiction (judged by Claudia Rankine) and the Cambor/Inprint fellowship. She is Associate Professor of English at Lone Star College in Houston.
Chaitali Sen is the author of the novel The Pathless Sky (Europa Editions 2015) and the short story collection A New Race of Men from Heaven, which won the Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction (Sarabande Books 2023). Her stories and essays have appeared in Boulevard, Ecotone (receiving a special mention in the 2019 Best American Short Stories Anthology). As of 2024 Chaltali became a PhD candidate in Creative Writing and Literature at University of Houston, where she is the recipient of the Inprint J.A. and Isabel M. Elkins Foundation Fellowship and a graduate teaching fellowship. She is currently at work on her second novel.
Basket Books & Art
115 Hyde Park Blvd
Houston, TX
USA 77006
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