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Mathangi Subramanian

Biography

Mathangi Subramanian

Mathangi Subramanian is an award-winning Indian American writer, author and educator. She is a graduate of Brown University and the Teachers College of Columbia University, and the recipient of a Fulbright as well as other fellowships. Her writing has previously appeared in the Washington Post, Quartz, Al Jazeera America and elsewhere. A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF HEAVEN is her first work of literary fiction.  

Books by Mathangi Subramanian

A People's History of Heaven
by Mathangi Subramanian - Fiction

In the tight-knit community known as Heaven, a ramshackle slum hidden between luxury high-rises in Bangalore, India, five girls on the cusp of womanhood forge an unbreakable bond. Muslim, Christian and Hindu; queer and straight; they are full of life, and they love and accept one another unconditionally. Whatever they have, they share. Marginalized women, they are determined to transcend their surroundings. When the local government threatens to demolish their tin shacks in order to build a shopping mall, the girls and their mothers refuse to be erased. Together they wage war on the bulldozers sent to bury their homes and, ultimately, on the city that wishes that families like them would remain hidden forever.