Midnight, At The War | Devi S. Laskar

Books & Writing

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Novels

Devi S. Laskar is an award-winning writer and poet, as well as a visual artist, photographer, songwriter, and former newspaper reporter.

Midnight At The War

Inspired by journalists Christiane Amanpour and Sylvia Poggioli, Midnight, at the War is a novel about a reporter chasing the biggest story of her career as she contends with a tense newsroom, a dangerous global conflict, and all the problems she’s running away from at home, by the acclaimed novelist that Megha Majumdar calls “a gem of a writer.”

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The Atlas of Reds and Blues

The Atlas of Reds and Blues opens with a woman lying bleeding on her driveway, shot by police. The woman has moved her family to the wealthy suburbs, but once there was is met with the same questions: Where are you from? No, where are you really from? The American-born daughter of Bengali immigrant parents, her truthful answer, here, is never enough.

The morning that opens The Atlas of Red and Blues is the morning that the woman’s simmering anger breaks through. During a baseless and prejudice-driven police raid on her house, she finally refuses to be calm, complacent, polite. As she lies bleeding on her driveway, her life flashing before her eyes, she struggles to make sense of her past and decipher her present – how did she end up here?

Circa

For fans of The Burning Girl by Claire Messud and Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi, a stunning, gut-punch of a novel that follows a young Indian American woman who, in the wake of tragedy, must navigate her family's expectations as she grapples with a complicated love and loss.

Poetry Books & Collections

Self-Portraits Ex Machina

In this dazzling and potent collection, Devi S. Laskar fuses memory with rage, turning hunger into vengeance, carving form into beauty as well as tragedy. These poems render personal history as haunting revelations of body, mind, and spirit, carrying urgent messages that demand to be heard.

– ELIZABETH ROSNER,

AUTHOR OF THIRD EAR AND SURVIVOR CAFE

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Gas & Food, No Lodging

This book of poems explores the questions of identity and race, and what it means to be in exile in your own country. Ms. Laskar writes of the politics of race and gender and not belonging in both the Deep South of the United States where she was born and raised, and in India, where she spent many summers as a child and adolescent visiting her extended family.

Anastasia Maps

Ms. Laskar's poetry explores dislocation. The title poem plays with the idea of turning back time or catching a glimpse of the future - but the narrator wakes to find that all the best plans are in fate's hands. She writes of the underbellies of fairytales and myths - and how, sometimes, change and wisdom follow great personal upheaval.