9th Ave: Ruchika Tomar

Tuesday, July 9, 2019 - 7:30pm

This event will be held at our 9th Ave. location.

Ruchika Tomar discusses her new novel, A Prayer for Travelers.

Praise For A Prayer for Travelers

"Sometimes characters come along that demand a new kind of novel. The young women at the center of Ruchika Tomar's A Prayer for Travelers - elusive Penny and wounded Cale - are two spirits hitchhiking through geographies of dislocation and desire. The human collisions in Tomar's novel are emotionally seismic, and they leave us haunted and unsettled."--Adam Johnson, author of The Orphan Master's Son

“Ruchika Tomar is an ace cartographer of the heart and its urgent, wild, unruly ways. Radiant with longing, A Prayer for Travelers is an unforgettable debut.”  —R.O. Kwon, author of The Incendiaries 

“A Prayer for Travelers is a novel haunted by missing persons and lost souls, written in telepathic prose. Ruchika Tomar sees through walls, around corners, and into the deep heart of what matters, and moves us, the most. A beautiful debut.”—Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet

About A Prayer For Travelers

Cale Lambert, a bookish loner of mysterious parentage, lives in a dusty town near the California-Nevada border, a place where coyotes scavenge for backyard dogs and long-haul truckers scavenge for pills and girls. Cale was raised by her grandfather in a loving, if codependent, household, but as soon as she's left high school his health begins an agonizing decline. Set adrift for the first time, Cale starts waitressing at the local diner, where she reconnects with Penélope Reyes, a charismatic former classmate running mysterious side-hustles to fund her dreams. Penny exposes Cale to the reality that exists beyond their small town, and the girls become inseparable----until one terrifying act of violence shatters their world. When Penny vanishes without a trace, Cale must set off on a dangerous quest across the desert to find her friend, and discover herself. 

An audacious debut, told in deftly interwoven chapters, A Prayer for Travelers explores the complicated legacy of the American West and the trauma of female experience.

 

A Prayer for Travelers: A Novel By Ruchika Tomar Cover Image
$29.70
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ISBN: 9780525537014
Published: Riverhead Books - July 9th, 2019

WINNER OF THE PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION

SHORTLISTED FOR THE VCU/CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARD AND LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE
 
“[A] scorching desert-noir. . . . Like her nervy protagonists, Tomar is a taker of risks.”  —New York Times Book Review
 


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