Tashan Mehta is coming to talk to us at 12pm SLT today. Her debut novel “The Liar’s Weave” is a powerful examination of Hindu mythology, a meditation about free will versus what determines our fate in love and life. The joy and the pain of free will, oh yes, both are part of the human condition.

Unless - as suggested by Tashan’s magical surrealism? - gods walk already among us and the free astrology birth chart I just downloaded is irrelevant?

Join us to chat with this immensely talented author about longform vs. short stories, matchmaking, reality making, and of course we Western folks will get a primer about modern India and how it relates to the one of a hundred years ago, where the novel takes place …

Meantime: visit the Book Club archipelago and watch past shows via the playlist below:

If you'd like to suggest an author, please email slbookclub@draxtor.com.