Join us to hear Brick Lane Short Story Prize-shortlisted Karishma Jobanputra discuss her debut story collection.

We’re very much looking forward to welcoming Karishma Jobanputra to Blackwell’s to discuss her electrifying short story collection, The Body Of The Thing, which takes us from first loves and lusts to motherhood and miscarriages, from sexual awakenings to final confrontations with death.

About the Book:

A lyrical and visceral short story collection, The Body of the Thing unpicks the hierarchies that thrum under our relationships. Moving from bougie neighbourhoods in Manhattan to the sun-drenched piazzas of Italy, from coastal Maine to the bustle of London, these stories chase the fallout when women’s bodies are valued for their beauty and youth, dismissed and discarded when ill, or made useful as parents and caregivers. Fluid, sensual, and fearless, The Body of the Thing explores motherhood, body dysmorphia and eating disorders, and celebrates female desire in all its complicated wonder.

About the author:

Karishma Jobanputra is a British Indian writer who has lived in London and New York and is a graduate of Columbia University’s MFA Fiction programme. Listed for the Brick Lane Short Story Prize 2024 and for the Disquiet Literary Prize for Fiction in 2021 and 2023, she was selected as the winner of the Eilean Shona Writing Workshop scholarship in 2021, where she returned to teach in 2023. Her work has been published in No Tokens Journal, The Rumpus, Wildness Journal, and Columbia Journal, amongst other places.