Northshire Bookstore Event: Mariam Rahmani on Liquid: A Love Story

(Manchester Center, VT) On Friday, April 18 at 6 pm, Northshire Bookstore will host a reading and signing by writer and Bennington College faculty member Mariam Rahmani, in honor of her new novel Liquid: A Love Story. 

Liquid has been named a Most Anticipated/Recommended Book of the Season by Oprah Daily, Vanity Fair, Literary Hub, WBUR, Electric Literature, Book Riot, LGBTQ Reads, RAWI, San Francisco Bay Times, and more.

For fans of Kaveh Akbar and Elif Batuman, Liquid delivers a modern tale of romance, loss, and belonging like no other. Mariam Rahmani’s gorgeous high-wire satire explodes off the page with verve and originality in this riveting spin on the classic romantic comedy. This brilliant debut tells the story of a young Muslim scholar stuck in the mire of adjunct professorship in Los Angeles who decides to give up her career in academia and marry rich, committing herself to 100 dates in the course of a single summer. 

“Mariam Rahmani’s debut novel is both charmingly familiar and totally unpredictable, [with] the crispy edges of the most satisfying rom-com… Rahmani is in many ways reinventing the Iranian American novel… Electrically alive [and] winkingly self-aware.”—The Atlantic

“Provocative, intelligent and bold, Liquid is a novel that lingers. Rahmani’s ability to access humor at the perfect moment, and her keen understanding of the power and perils of vulnerability make her the best kind of observer—an honest one.”—Angela Flournoy, author of The Turner House

Mariam Rahmani is a writer and translator. Her fiction, essays, and translations have appeared in Granta, Gulf Coast, n+1, and elsewhere. Her first book-length translation was named Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker. Rahmani holds a PhD from UCLA and an MFA from Columbia, as well as degrees from Princeton and Oxford. She teaches at Bennington College.

For more information on these or other events, email events@northshire.com, or visit the Northshire Bookstore website at www.northshire.com.

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