[This is a Virtual Ruby event. Nonmembers are welcome to join;  please donate if you are able! This event will take place over Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88384200492?pwd=Nk5MQVF6ZlhoQy9xMUNIanNZK3B0UT09]

Join Rubies Meng Jin and Sunisa Manning in a discussion of Ruby member Shruti Swamy's "Earthly Pleasures." Find the PDF to the story here. We encourage you to pre-order Shruti's book, A House is A Body, locally from EM Wolfman, Book Smith, or Point Reyes Books. Or from Bookshop here. 

About A House is A Body

In two-time O. Henry-prize winner Swamy's debut collection of stories, dreams collide with reality, modernity collides with antiquity, myth with true identity, and women grapple with desire, with ego, with motherhood and mortality. In "Earthly Pleasures," Radika, a young painter living alone in San Francisco, begins a secret romance with one of India's biggest celebrities. In "A Simple Composition," a husband's moment of crisis leads to his wife's discovery of a dark, ecstatic joy and the sense of a new beginning. In the title story, an exhausted mother watches, distracted and paralyzed, as a California wildfire approaches her home. With a knife blade's edge and precision, the stories of A House Is a Body travel from India to America and back again to reveal the small moments of beauty, pain, and power that contain the world.