Join us for an evening with Rishi Reddi, author of Passage West  in conversation with Mala Patel.

Passage West is a sweeping, vibrant first novel following a family of Indian sharecroppers at the onset of World War I, revealing a little-known part of California history.

Rishi Reddi is also the author of the collection Karma and Other Stories, which received the 2008 L. L. Winship /PEN New England Award for fiction. Her work appears in Best American Short Stories, has been broadcast on National Public Radio, and was chosen for honorable mention in the Pushcart Prize. She was born in Hyderabad, India, and grew up in Great Britain and the United States. She lives in Cambridge, MA.

Mercantile Library member Mala Patel is a California native and the co-founder of the Tri-State Asian American Action Fund.