Kiran Desai explored loneliness and connection across space and time at the Hammer Museum on Thursday. Desai – the Booker Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of “Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard” and “The Inheritance of Loss” – spoke with UCLA professor Mona Simpson in this year’s final iteration of Simpson’s “Some Favorite Writers” series. Read more...
Photo: Kiran Desai and UCLA professor Mona Simpson sit on stage at the Hammer Museum. Desai was a guest speaker as a part of Simpson’s “Some Favorite Writers'” series, and she spoke about her latest novel, “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny.” (Maanasi Kademani/Daily Bruin)
