Chaitali Sen was born in India and moved to the U.S. at the age of two. She received an MFA from Hunter College. Her short stories have been published in The Colorado Review, New England Review, Juked, among others. She lives in Austin, Texas. This past summer she was awarded a Tennessee Williams Scholarship to attend the Sewanee Writers' Conference.
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Brilliant yet somewhat feckless John Merchant meets Mariam at college, and their on-again, off-again affair unfolds against the backdrop of political and military violence in their unnamed country.— Library Journal, Oct 29 2015![]()
Reeling from personal tragedy, a young couple struggles to navigate political violence in their unnamed homeland and rebuild their marriage. “It mattered to him that he woke up alone,” Sen's debut novel begins. John is upset and angry to find his wife, Mariam, once again...— Jul 29 2015
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