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Randy Boyagoda

Biography

Randy Boyagoda

Randy Boyagoda’s first novel, GOVERNOR OF THE NORTHERN PROVINCE, was critically acclaimed and longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. THE BEGGAR'S FEAST was longlisted for the 2013 IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize.

He regularly reviews for The New York Times, Harper’s and The Globe and Mail and is writing a biography of Richard John Neuhaus, which will be published in 2014. He is Chairman of the English Department at Ryerson University.

Randy Boyagoda

Books by Randy Boyagoda

by Randy Boyagoda - Fiction, Humor

Devi is a Sri Lankan village girl who dreams of going to Harvard. Katrina is a middle-class American girl whose life has been designed to get her into an elite liberal arts college. Devi’s father cleans toilets in a five-star hotel to pay for his daughter’s Indian tutor, who might not be the Oxford student he claims to be on WhatsApp. Katrina’s father teaches extra courses at a mediocre technical university to pay for his daughter’s academic lifestyle experiences. Meanwhile, his tech-bro TA expertly extorts money from international students worried about flunking and getting deported.