March 19, 2019

March 19, 2019
Our First Featured Title and Contest

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we know people will be talking about this spring. Read more about it, and enter our Spring Preview Contest by Wednesday, March 20th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF HEAVEN by Mathangi Subramanian, which is now available. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

Our First Featured Book and Contest:
A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF HEAVEN
by Mathangi Subramanian

A politically driven graffiti artist. A transgender Christian convert. A blind girl who loves to dance. A queer daughter of a hijabi union leader. These are some of the young women who live in a Bangalore slum known as Heaven, young women whom readers will come to love in the moving, atmospheric and deeply inspiring debut, A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF HEAVEN.

Welcome to Heaven, a 30-year-old slum hidden between brand-new high-rise apartment buildings and technology incubators in contemporary Bangalore, one of India's fastest-growing cities. In Heaven, you will come to know a community of people living hand-to-mouth and constantly struggling against the city government who wants to bulldoze their homes and build yet more glass high-rises. These families, men and women, young and old, gladly support one another, sharing whatever they can.

A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF HEAVEN centers on five best friends, girls who go to school together, a diverse group who love and accept one another unconditionally, pulling one another through crises and providing emotional, physical and financial support. Together they wage war on the bulldozers that would bury their homes, and, ultimately, on the city that does not care what happens to them.
 
This is a story about geography, history and strength, about love and friendship, about fighting for the people and places we love --- even if no one else knows they exist. Elegant, poetic, bursting with color, Mathangi Subramanian's novel is a moving and celebratory story of girls on the cusp of adulthood who find joy just in the basic act of living.

- Click here to read an excerpt.
- Click here to visit Mathangi Subramanian's website.
- Click here to connect with Mathangi Subramanian on Twitter.

Click here to enter the contest by 11:59am ET
on Wednesday, March 20th.

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