Iowa Writers’ Workshop alum Sanjena Sathian will read from her new novel, Goddess Complex, and will be joined in conversation by Ren Arcamone, also a Writers’ Workshop alum. Penguin Random House, which published Goddess Complex, describes it as “a darkly funny, vertiginous novel about the dilemmas of procreation, pregnancy, and parenting.” Sarah Thankam Mathews, author of the National Book Award finalist All This Could Be Different, praises Goddess Complex as “the most interesting, illuminating, and bold contemporary novel of ideas I’ve read in years. Sanjena Sathian has given us a world that’s split—between India and America, between acid and ache, between the longing to reproduce and the longing to remain inviolate, between comedy and horror—in a way that affords us that rarest of opportunities: a space to truly think.” Likewise, Vauhini Vara, author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Immortal King Rao and This is Salvaged, says, “Buckle up, readers: Goddess Complex, an heir to the best of Kafka or Roth in both its savage comic brilliance and its depth of meaning, is the wildest of rides. I can’t remember the last time I read a book that was simultaneously so serious in its ambition—this is a novel, ultimately, about female power and agency—and such a perfectly plotted page-turner. I could not put it down.”