Sheena Patel – I'm A Fan
At: Online-only
On:2nd August 2022, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
We are delighted to be hosting an online event with Sheena Patel to celebrate the publication of her debut novel, I'm A Fan, earlier this year. She will be in conversation with fellow writer, Olivia Sudjic.
About I'm A Fan:
A single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithful relationship as a prism through which to examine the complicated hold we each have on one another. With a clear and unforgiving eye, the narrator unpicks the behaviour of all involved, herself included, and makes startling connections between the power struggles at the heart of human relationships and those of the wider world, in turn offering a devastating critique of access, social media, patriarchal heteronormative relationships, and our cultural obsession with status and how that status is conveyed.
In this incendiary debut, Sheena Patel announces herself as a writer capable of rendering a range of emotions and visceral experiences on the page. Sex, violence, politics, tenderness, humour - Patel handles them all with both originality and dexterity of voice.
Sheena Patel is a writer and assistant director for film and TV who was born and raised in North West London. She is part of the poetry collective 4 BROWN GIRLS WHO WRITE. I'm A Fan is her debut novel, published by Rough Trade Books.
Olivia Sudjic was born in London. She studied English Literature at Cambridge University where she was awarded the E.G. Harwood English Prize and made a Bateman Scholar. She is the author of the essay Exposure, as well as novels Sympathy and Asylum Road.