Please join us for the upcoming visit to UNO of prize-winning author Sohrab Homi Fracis, who will be giving a public presentation and reading as part of the Bruce and Karen Baker Lecture series on Tuesday, November 12, at 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. in the Nebraska Room of the Milo Bail Student Center.

In Fracis’s first two books, the short story collection Ticket to Minto: Stories of India and America (which won the Iowa Short Fiction Award) and novel Go Home (short-listed for Stanford’s William Saroyan International Fiction Prize), he perceptively explores the experiences of Indian-heritage people in the United States. These books illuminate the conflicts many immigrants to this country face in adapting to American culture and making a home in this country – yet while still remaining connected to their roots in a homeland far away. As one reviewer of Go Home wrote, “At the heart of Shorab Homi Fracis’s novel...is the question of one’s place in the world, the answer never more ambiguous or fragile than for the immigrant or exile, when a person’s condition of homelessness is in transition, neither here nor there.”

Fracis’s most recent publication is the short story collection, True Fiction, which not only includes a number of poignant and incisive explorations of modern American life’s quandaries but also flights of fantasy. As one reviewer writes, “Fracis’s groundbreaking collection combines realistic stories with a touch of magic. Readers will not want to put this collection down. Fracis takes readers on a dark and captivating ride from beginning to end, holding up a literary mirror, giving readers a chance to dive into the lives of others, while reflecting on their own lives.”

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This public lecture is brought to you by the Bruce and Karen Baker Lecture series.