From the Bookshelves: Announcing the Winner of Restless Books New Immigrant Writing Prize

Restless Books is pleased to announce the winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, which each year will award $10,000 and publication to a first-time, first-generation American author. The 2018 prize goes to Priyanka Champaneri for her novel The City of Good Death, a novel about the proprietor of a death hostel in Benares, the Indian city where Hindus come to die a holy death. The City of Good Death will be published by Restless Books in Spring 2020.

Priyanka Champaneri was born and raised in Virginia. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University and has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts numerous times. The City of Good Death is her first novel.

Here is an excerpt of the book.

KJ