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Shobha Rao

Shobha Rao
Shobha Rao is the author of the short story collection, An Unrestored Woman, and the novel, Girls Burn Brighter. She is the winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction, and her story “Kavitha and Mustafa” was chosen by T.C. Boyle for inclusion in Best American Short Stories 2015. Girls Burn Brighter has been long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and was a finalist for the California Book Award.


Letting Birdsong Fill This New Pandemic Silence

Shobha Rao on the Quiet Spaces of Our New Reality
April 6, 2020  By Shobha Rao
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