Nina McConigley's HOW TO COMMIT A POSTCOLONIAL MURDER w/ Priyanka Mattoo

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LA Launch! Nina McConigley presents HOW TO COMMIT A POSTCOLONIAL MURDER with Priyanka Mattoo

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Sunny's Bookshop - Located inside our floral shop Shades of Petals (Tarzana, CA)Join us on Saturday, January 31st at 7pm to celebrate the LA Launch of Nina McConigley’s new novel How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder! Nina will be in conversation with Priyanka Mattoo for this special night of reading, signing, and Q+A.<a href="https://www.sunnysbookshop.com/sunnys-bookshop/p/how-to-commit-a-postcolonial-murder-signed" title="https://www.sunnysbookshop.com/sunnys-bookshop/p/how-to-commit-a-postcolonial-murder-signed" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">SAVE YOUR SIGNED COPY HERE</a>ABOUT "HOW TO COMMIT A POSTCOLONIAL MURDER"Summer, 1986. The Creel sisters, Georgie Ayyar and Agatha Krishna, welcome their aunt, uncle and young cousin—newly arrived from India—into their house in rural Wyoming where they’ll all live together. Because this is what families do. That is, until the sisters decide that it’s time for their uncle to die.According to Georgie, the British are to blame. And to understand why, you need to hear her story. She details the violence hiding in their house and history, her once-unshakeable bond with Agatha Krishna, and her understanding of herself as an Indian-American in the heart of the West. Her account is, at every turn, cheeky, unflinching, and infectiously inflected with the trappings of teendom, including the magazine quizzes that help her make sense of her life. At its heart, the tale she weaves is:a) a vivid portrait of an extended family b) a moving story of sisterhood c) a playful ode to the 80s d) a murder mystery (of sorts) e) an unexpected and unwaveringly powerful meditation on history and language, trauma and healing, and the meaning of independenceOr maybe it’s really:f) all of the above.ABOUT NINA MCCONIGLEYNina McConigley was born in Singapore and raised in Wyoming. Her short-story collection <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/779109/cowboys-and-east-indians-by-nina-mcconigley/" title="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/779109/cowboys-and-east-indians-by-nina-mcconigley/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Cowboys and East Indians</a> was the winner of the <a href="https://pen.org/2014-pen-open-book-award/" title="https://pen.org/2014-pen-open-book-award/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">PEN Open Book Award</a> and a <a href="https://highplainsbookawards.org/winners/" title="https://highplainsbookawards.org/winners/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">High Plains Book Award</a>. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Orion, Ploughshares, Alaska Quarterly Review, High Country News, O, Oprah Magazine, Parents, Virginia Quarterly Review, American Short Fiction, and The Asian American Literary Review among others. In 2019-2020, was the <a href="https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/nina-mcconigley" title="https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/nina-mcconigley" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Walter Jackson Bate fellow</a> at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and was a 2022 recipient of the <a href="https://www.arts.gov/impact/literary-arts/creative-writing-fellows/nina-mcconigley" title="https://www.arts.gov/impact/literary-arts/creative-writing-fellows/nina-mcconigley" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Creative Writing Fellowship</a>. Her play based on Cowboys and East Indians was commissioned by the <a href="https://www.denvercenter.org/tickets-events/cowboys-and-east-indians/" title="https://www.denvercenter.org/tickets-events/cowboys-and-east-indians/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Denver Center for Performing Arts</a> and will have its world premiere in 2026. She has two books forthcoming: her essay collection will be published by the <a href="https://www.ugapress.org/series/crux-the-georgia-series-in-literary-nonfiction/" title="https://www.ugapress.org/series/crux-the-georgia-series-in-literary-nonfiction/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">University of Georgia Press.</a> And her novel, <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/779107/how-to-commit-a-postcolonial-murder-by-nina-mcconigley/" title="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/779107/how-to-commit-a-postcolonial-murder-by-nina-mcconigley/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder</a>, is forthcoming with Pantheon in January 2026. She teaches at Colorado State University.ABOUT PRIYANKA MATTOOPriyanka Mattoo is a writer, filmmaker, former talent agent, and a cofounder of Earios, a women-led podcast network. She is a contributor to The New York Times and The New Yorker, and a recipient of a MacDowell Fellow­ship. Mattoo holds degrees in Italian and law from the University of Michigan and currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband and kids.

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