Please join the next Barnard in Washington alumnae Books and Beyond discussion on Sunday, April 6, from 3-4:30 on Zoom. We will be discussing Meet Us By the Roaring Sea by Akil Kumarasamy '10.  According to the Barnard Alumnae Magazine,

" Kumarasamy — novelist and associate professor of fiction at Rutgers University-Newark’s MFA writing program — has two books of fiction to her credit.

The reviews of Kumarasamy’s second book and first novel, Meet Us by the Roaring Sea, point to the layering of her story within a story. Accolades like “spellbinding,” “breathtakingly imaginative,” and — from Scientific American — “a dizzying alchemy of past and present, love and truth, death and memory” reflect the book’s uncommon narrative structure and its power. The story follows an artificial intelligence tech in the near future who is grieving her mother’s unexpected death as she translates a manuscript from the 1990s. The manuscript is about the slow decline…