Aug
2
6:00pm
Sheena Patel – I'm A Fan
By The Portobello Bookshop
We are delighted to be hosting an online event with Sheena Patel to celebrate the publication of her upcoming debut novel out in June, I'm A Fan. She will be in conversation with fellow author Olivia Sudjic.
About I'm A Fan:
A single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithful relationship as a prism through which to examine the complicated hold we each have on one another. With a clear and unforgiving eye, the narrator unpicks the behaviour of all involved, herself included, and makes startling connections between the power struggles at the heart of human relationships and those of the wider world, in turn offering a devastating critique of access, social media, patriarchal heteronormative relationships, and our cultural obsession with status and how that status is conveyed.
In this incendiary debut, Sheena Patel announces herself as a writer capable of rendering a range of emotions and visceral experiences on the page. Sex, violence, politics, tenderness, humour - Patel handles them all with both originality and dexterity of voice.
Sheena Patel is a writer and assistant director for film and TV who was born and raised in North West London. She is part of the poetry collective 4 BROWN GIRLS WHO WRITE and her debut novel I’m A Fan will be published by Rough Trade Books in 2022.
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