Lessons in Love and Other Crimes - by Elizabeth Chakrabarty (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>An innovative hybrid of auto-fiction, crime fiction and critical race memoir, this multi-layered yet compulsively readable novel is inspired by the author´s real and extended experience of serious racial harassment, as well as exploring her search for justice and for love</b> <p/> Tesya has reasons to feel hopeful after leaving her last job, where she was subjected to a series of anonymous hate crimes. Now she is back home in London to start a new lecturing position, and has begun an exciting, if tumultuous, love affair with the enigmatic Holly. But this idyllic new start quickly sours. Tesya finds herself victimized again at work by an unknown assailant, who subjects her to an insidious, sustained race hate crime. As her paranoia mounts, Tesya finds herself yearning for the most elemental of desires: love, acceptance, and sanctuary. Her assailant, meanwhile, is recording his manifesto and plotting his next steps. Inspired by the author's personal experiences of hate crime and bookended with essays which contextualize the story within a lifetime of microaggressions, <i>Lessons in Love and Other Crimes</i> is a heartbreaking, hopeful, and compulsively readable novel about the most quotidian of crimes.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><br> 'A story you won't be able to get out of your head.' <br><b><i>Cosmopolitan</i></b> <p/> 'Fierce, contemporary and completely absorbing, Lessons in Love and Other Crimes is a fresh and forensic novel asking ages-old questions - what makes a writer? What makes a lover? And pressing for our moment now - what makes a racist? Part thriller, part elegy to modern British life, this novel will shock some readers while others will cheer as Elizabeth Chakrabarty ties the many threads of an everyday crime into an extraordinary lovers' knot. Formally inventive and erotically charged, compassion and intelligence shine through every sentence Chakrabarty writes.' <br><b>Preti Taneja, author of <i>We That Are Young</i></b> <p/> 'Gripping and unnerving, a story about the relentlessness of racism'. <br><b>Catherine Mayer</b> <p/> 'An important new voice for our troubled times. Vibrant and passionate storytelling.' <br><b>Tessa McWatt</b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Elizabeth Chakrabarty</b> is an interdisciplinary artist who uses creative and critical writing, besides performance, to explore themes of race, gender, and sexuality. Her story "Eurovision" was short-listed for the Asian Writer Short Story Prize and published in <i>Dividing Lines</i> (Dahlia Publishing, 2017). She is a contributor to a new anthology edited by Kirsty Gunn, <i>Imagined Spaces</i>. She lives in London.
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