Be ready to get crafty for the evening! Priyanka Mattoo will be in conversation with journalist Jane Marie about her memoir Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones. She'll then guide guests through a knitting/crochet activity. Ticket price includes all art materials. ABOUT THE BOOK From a wry, insightful, and very funny new voice, here is one woman’s search for home, from Kashmir to England to Saudi Arabia to Michigan to Rome and, finally, to Los Angeles—standalone essays that together form a sweeping portrait of a peripatetic life.
 I would follow Priyanka Mattoo to the ends of the earth, because she would know what to eat there, and how to make a friend, and then sit me down and tell me a story.  —Emma Straub
Priyanka Mattoo was born into a wooden house in the Himalayas, as were most of her ancestors. In 1989, however, mounting violence in the region forced Mattoo’s community to flee. The home into which her family poured their dreams was reduced to a pile of rubble.
Mattoo never moved back to her beloved Kashmir—because it no longer existed. She and her family just kept packing and unpacking and moving on. In forty years, Mattoo accumulated thirty-two different addresses, and she chronicles her nomadic existence with wit, wisdom, and an inimitable eye for light within the darkest moments. She takes us from her grandparents’ sprawling home in Srinagar, where her boisterous aunties raced through the halls, to Saudi Arabia, where friendships were gained and lost behind the sandstone walls of a foreigners’ compound. We witness her courtship with a nice Jewish boy, now her husband, and her efforts to rep­licate her mother’s rogan josh recipe via Zoom. And we are with her as she settles into her unlikely new home­land, Los Angeles, where she sets off on what is perhaps her most meaningful journey: that of becoming a writer.
Through these astonishingly poignant and often laugh-out loud essays, Mattoo has given us an open­hearted, frank, revealing glimpse into a journey of almost constant motion, as well as a journey of self-discovery. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Priyanka Mattoo is a contributor to The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Vulture, where she is an advice columnist. She is a recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship and holds degrees in Italian and Law from the University of Michigan. Born in Kashmir and raised in England and Saudi Arabia, Priyanka now lives in LA with her family. BIRD MILK & MOSQUITO BONES is her memoir debut. ABOUT THE INTERLOCUTOR Jane Marie is the author of Selling the Dream: The Billion Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans. She’s also a Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist, a former producer of This American Life, and the host of podcasts The Dream and DTR. Her writing has appeared in Jezebel, Cosmopolitan, The Toast, and more.

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