Tilt

Meghana V. Nayak is Professor of Political Science and Chair of Women’s and Gender Studies at Pace University-NYC. Her previous publications include Who is Worthy of Protection: Gender-Based Asylum and U.S. Immigration Politics and Decentering International Relations (with Eric Selbin).Her work on gender violence has been published in various journals and edited volumes and has been used by organizations working with asylum seekers. Tilt is her first novel.

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A slow-burning bittersweet story of intergenerational trauma across the minefield of diaspora. Nayak weaves together the antagonistic psychic life of the main character, Kavya, with the politics and pleasures of academia, with the vexing terrain of mothering, and with the possibility of, might we say, self-love.