Our guest this week, Rijula Das, is originally from India but now makes her home in Wellington, New Zealand. She is an author and a Bengali-to-English translator. Her debut novel A Death in Shonagachhi was published in India last year but has come to the United States with a different title, Small Deaths. Her book was named by the website Crime Reads as a “must read” and Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn recommended Rijulas’ debut during an appearance on Good Morning America. The book has been optioned to adapted for the screen.

You can find Rijula Das on Instagram at @rijuladas and at her website www.rijuladas.com

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Books mentioned in this episode:

2- Hamlet by Shakespeare (Amleth)

3- The Wonder by Emma Donoghue

4- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

5- Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

6- The Kissing Bug: The True Story of a Family, an Infect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease by Daisy Hernandez

7- Less by Andrew Sean Greer

8- Less is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer

9- In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

10- Haven by Emma Donoghue

11- Room by Emma Donoghue

Movies mentioned--

2- The Wonder (Netflix) 2022

3- Room (2015)