Novelist to Read from Stealing Nasreen April 15-16
Contact: Mazie Hough, 581-1228; George Manlove, 581-3756
ORONO — Farzana Doctor, a Toronto-based lesbian writer, educator and social worker, will be at the University of Maine and at the Bangor Public Library April 15 and April 16 to read from her critically acclaimed first novel Stealing Nasreen.
Doctor’s appearance has been organized by the Women in the Curriculum and Women’s Studies Program and the Division of Student Affairs, and is part of Gay Pride Week at UMaine.
Stealing Nasreen
is a book about a doomed love triangle, and explores what happens when a South Asian lesbian becomes enmeshed in the lives of a new immigrant couple from Mumbai.
The author will appear Tuesday, April 15, from 6:30-7:30 p.m. at Bangor Public Library at 145 Harlow Street and April 16, 12:15-1:30 p.m., in the Bangor Room of the Memorial Union at the University of Maine. For information about the Bangor reading, call 947-8336, and or 581-1228 for information about Doctor’s Orono appearance.
Both events are free and open to the public. Copies of Stealing Nasreen will be available for sale.
Farzana Doctor describes herself as a “queer writer.” A Toronto-based, educator and consultant, Doctor also is experienced in counseling marginalized groups including the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and transsexual communities.
Her work has been published in Siren Magazine, Trikone, Sightlines 7 Anthology, NOW Magazine and Aurat Durbar. She has also had chapters, reviews and articles published in edited books and journals, has co-written a manual for therapists, co-written plays, and co-produced a documentary video. She is currently working on her second novel.
For more information about Doctor, check out www.farzanadoctor.com