Stealing Nasreen Book Readings, Bangor and Orono, Maine

Stealing Nasreen Book Readings in Maine


WHAT: Farzana Doctor will be at the University of Maine (Orono) and at the Bangor Public Library to read from her critically acclaimed debut novel, Stealing Nasreen. A doomed love triangle of sorts, the novel explores what happens when a South Asian lesbian becomes enmeshed in the lives of an apparently straight new immigrant couple from Mumbai.


WHEN/WHERE: Tuesday April 15th, 6:30-7:30pm at the Bangor Public Library,

145 Harlow Street, Bangor. Info: (207) 947-8336

AND

Wednesday April 16th, 12:15-1:30pm at the University of Maine, Orono, Bangor Room, Memorial Hall. Organized by the Women in the Curriculum and Women?s Studies Program as part of Pride Week. Info: (207) 581-1228


Both events are free and open to the public. Copies of Stealing Nasreen will be available for sale.


Farzana Doctor is a Toronto-based, South Asian, queer writer. Stealing Nasreen, has been receiving positive reviews and media attention, from CBC Radio Toronto, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Sun, Quill and Quire, NOW Magazine, Report on Business, XTRA!, Philly Gay News, OMNI TV News, SUN TV and the Houston Press. She is currently working on her second novel. She is also a social worker, educator, and consultant based in Toronto. For more information, check out www.farzanadoctor.com/writing.html


CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR STEALING NASREEN:

Farzana Doctor?s first novel offers a study in linked solitudes and secrets?What has stayed with me are the unerring interior dramas.?Globe and Mail

This unique contribution to CanLit probes the problems and joys of creating an open, diverse society.?Now Magazine

Stealing Nasreen reveals the intricacies of human relationships, but more importantly, it is an eye-opening critique of the multicultural dream.?Quill and Quire