The Parted Earth

CONFIRMED   On-air interview on Morning Edition (date tbd) On-air interview on WABE City Lights with Lois Reitzes (late May) April 6 issue: Publishers Weekly, Soapbox Colum on the path to publication May issue: Harper’s Bazaar Books Page June Issue: Ms. Magazine Booksmarks Column May 5: Atlanta Journal-Constitution Review + Feature May 5: Chapter 16 (Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, Chattanooga) Review Late May: Review in the San Francisco Chronicle Late May: Review in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune Featured guest on Kirkus Reviews's Fully Booked Podcast Feature in BOMB Magazine Review in Charleston Post & Courier Essay in the Oxford American Excerpt confirmed in Electric Lit June / July issue: Poets & Writers Craft Capsules Trades: Kirkus, Booklist, Publishers Weekly Confirmed Anita Felicelli interviewing for Catapult Chaya Bhuvaneswar interviewing for Vol. 1 Brooklyn  May 5: Priya Jain interviewing for The Rumpus Rudri Patel interviewing for Electric Lit Hasanthika Sirisena will be interviewing Anjali in June for Fiction Writers Review  Run date tk: AP interviewing for The New Southern Fugitives Run date tk: Jenny Bhatt interviewing for Guernica Run date tk: Kavita Das interviewing for Los Angeles Review of Books Run date tk: Review in Khabar magazine Run date tk: Jennifer Baker for Minorities in Publishing podcast's April episode Publicity and Outreach Robust Indie Next campaign Outreach to enthusiastic readers of Laila Lalami, Megha Majumdar, Brit Bennett.  Influencer-led Instagram campaign using the hashtag #thepartedearth  ARCs at regional tradeshows Seeking coverage in monthly magazines including O Magazine, EW, Vogue, Marie Claire, Vanity Fair, GQ, and newspapers The New York Times, The Washington Post, Minneapolis Star Tribune, NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, and more. Coverage on literary sites including: LitHub, Electric Lit, the Chicago Review of Books Off the book essay placement including essays about growing up mixed race in the South  Pitching diverse bookclubs, book subscription boxes Promotion through the Cold Mountain Fund Book Series including limited events with Series funder Charles Frazier. Large Southern tour including book events in Mid-Atlantic and South (OH, KY, NC, SC, GA, and VA) / Virtual tour: NYC, PHL, BOS, ATL, DC Outside publicity provided by Nectar Literary. Blurbs received from Laila Lalami, Jenny Offill, Vanessa Hua, and Nayomi Munaweera

Spanning more than half a century and cities from New Delhi to Atlanta, Anjali Enjeti’s debut is a heartfelt and human portrait of the long shadow of the Partition of India on the lives of three generations of women. The story begins in August 1947. Unrest plagues the streets of New Delhi leading up to the birth of the Muslim majority nation of Pakistan, and the Hindu majority nation of India. Sixteen-year-old Deepa navigates the changing politics of her home, finding solace in messages of intricate origami from her secret boyfriend Amir. Soon Amir flees with his family to Pakistan and a tragedy forces Deepa to leave the subcontinent forever. The story also begins sixty years later and half a world away, in Atlanta. While grieving both a pregnancy loss and the implosion of her marriage, Deepa’s granddaughter Shan begins the search for her estranged grandmother, a prickly woman who had little interest in knowing her. As she pieces together her family history shattered by the Partition, Shan discovers how little she actually knows about the women in her family and what they endured. For readers of Jess Walter’s Beautiful Ruins, The Parted Earth follows Shan on her search for identity after loss uproots her life. Above all, it is a novel about families weathering the lasting violence of separation, and how it can often takes a lifetime to find unity and peace.