# Shobha Rao
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shobha rao is an American novelist, having immigrated from India. She won the 2014 Katherine Anne Porter Prize, is a recipient of the Elizabeth George Foundation fellowship, and has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2015.
== Writing and reception ==
Rao's debut novel, Girls Burn Brighter, has been praised for its "sustained and elegant prose", though USA Today said that the "empowering message gets lost in the overheated language and imagery"; the review concluded that once "Rao learns to dial down the melodrama, she’ll be a formidable writer".
The Quiet After Snowfall
Award-winning novelist Shobha Rao joins Saadia Khan to talk about the stories that define and defy us. In this wide-ranging conversation, Shobha reflects on immigrating to the U.S. at age seven, learning English through Little House on the Prairie, and how the quiet of her first snowfall changed he…
Human Memory Carried in the Land and Water (with Shobha Rao)
In this episode, we interview Shobha Rao, author of 'Girls Burn Brighter' and 'Indian Country.' Rao shares her journey to becoming a writer, beginning with her migration from India to the U.S. as a child. We cover the themes in her books, particularly focusing on disenfranchised populations and the…
On rivers, mouths, and memory: Shobha Rao discusses ‘Indian Country’ in advance of Montana tour
This week on ‘The Write Question,’ host Lauren Korn speaks with novelist Shobha Rao, author of ‘Indian Country’ (Crown Publishing Group). Shobha will be in Bozeman at Country Bookshelf on November 17th (with Shane Doyle); in Hamilton at Chapter One Bookstore on November 19; and in Missoula at Fact …
Phil Ginsburg on SF Parks/California at COP30/Author Shobha Rao
Phil Ginsburg on San Francisco's parks and public spaces; California delegation turns heads at UN Climate Conference COP30; Author Shobha Rao joins us to talk about her new book, Indian Country.
Shobha Rao-Indian Country
On this episode we are joined by Shobha Rao who discusses her latest novel, Indian Country. Shobha moved to the United States from India at the age of seven. Rao is the winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction and was a Grace Paley Teaching Fellow at The New School.
"A bold, ambitiou…
Shobha Rao on Not Becoming Attached
Ted is joined by Shobha Rao, the author of the short story collection An Unrestored Woman and the novels Indian Country and Girls Burn Brighter. Shobha has won the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction and was a Grace Paley Teaching Fellow at The New School. Girls Burn Brighter was long-listed fo…
Episode 173: Interview with author Laurie Frankel, author of Enormous Wings
It is always a sun-shiny day when Laurie Frankel gifts us all with a new book, and Enormous Wings is that book!
Enormous Wings is a timely novel about Pepper Mills who grudgingly moves into a retirement community. While there, she gets some shocking news, and boy does she! Enormous Wings explores …
When the Past Comes Calling: Crime Fiction Across America's Fault Lines
Crime fiction becomes a lens on buried history, fractured families, and the uneasy relationship between past and present in this electrifying conversation featuring Naomi Hirahara, Susie Hara, Faye Snowden, Élan Les Vies, and Shobha Rao. Though their settings range from early 20th-century Californi…
Re-release | Shobha Rao, Indian Country
Re-release | Host Jason Blitman talks to Shobha Rao (Indian Country) live at Camino Books in San Diego. They discuss Laura Ingalls Wilder, the title’s double meaning from Rao’s childhood experience as “Indian,” the book’s central themes of water and rivers, the recurring power of three, and much mo…
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