Award-winning writer and journalist Amitava Kumar was born in Ara, India and grew up in the nearby town of Patna, famous for its corruption, crushing poverty, and delicious mangoes. Kumar is the author of several books of nonfiction, poetry and his most recent novel, Immigrant, Montana (2018). He lives in Poughkeepsie, in upstate New York, where he is Helen D. Lockwood Professor of English at Vassar College. In 2016, Amitava Kumar was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as a Ford Fellowship in Literature from United States Artists.

"As cerebral as it is sensual... Immigrant, Montana is intelligent, melancholy, quirky." — Boston Globe

Wednesday, April 3, 2019 | 7 PM (doors 6 PM)

The Great Hall, 1087 Queen St West

Tickets: $20 General Admission | $15 Student/Senior

To purchase: https://bit.ly/2HdlxCE

$250 Preferred Access Tickets also available. Preferred Access Tickets include reserved/best in-house seating, a signed copy of Immigrant, Montana, a pre-event reception in the Conversation Hall, and a tax receipt for the maximum allowable amount.

To purchase Preferred Access Tickets: lauren.ak@kofflerarts.org

Presented by the Koffler Centre of the Arts.