Born in Karachi and raised in Lahore, Pakistan, Bapsi Sidhwa has been widely celebrated as the finest novelist produced by her country. She is the author of several novels, including The Crow Eaters, An American Brat, Cracking India, and, most recently, Water, which received the 2007 Premio Mondello in Italy. Among her many honors, Sidhwa has received the Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe/Harvard, the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writer’s Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and the Sitara-i-Imtiaz, Pakistan’s highest honor in the arts. She lives in Houston.

New York, New York
March 18, 2008@ 6:30 PM
The Pakistani Bride Book Release Party
Aicon Gallery
Co-sponsored by Indo-American Arts Council and SAJA
206 Fifth Avenue, Fifth Floor
RSVP: admin@iaac.us or call (212) 594-3685

Houston, Texas
April 3, 2008 @ 6 PM
Brazos Bookstore
2421 Bissonnet
Ph: 713-523-0701