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ALL THE NAMES THEY USED FOR GOD
Stories
A haunting, debut story collection that explores the isolation we experience in the face of the powerful, mysterious, often dangerous forces that shape our lives—by Iowa MFA graduate Anjali Sachdeva.
ALL THE NAMES THEY USED FOR GOD spans centuries, continents, and a diverse set of characters—but is united by each character's epic struggle with fate.
In one story, a young woman created through genetic manipulation is destroyed by the same force that gave her life.
In another, a workman in Andrew Carnegie’s steel mills is turned into a medical oddity by the brutal power of the furnaces—and eventually revitalized by that same deformity.
Other protagonists include: a kidnapped woman who uses magic to escape her captors, but becomes a victim of her own powers; a fisherman who finds himself mentally unhinged by a brush with the supernatural.
Sachdeva's stories have a way of pointing out unique truths about our society and humanity. Each of her stories are research-based, exquisitely balancing the fantastical elements with a grounded scientific basis. The inspiration for many of her stories begins with a piece of history: e.g., the kidnapping of young women by Boko Haram; John Milton's writing Paradise Lost.
Anjali Sachdeva’s fiction has been published widely. She counts Dave Eggers and Kelly Link among her literary admirers, as well as Chris Offut, and Kevin Brockmeier. Her short story “Baby” won the Orange/Northern Woman Short Story prize. She is a former editor at Unstuck, a journal of the futuristic, the fantastic, the surreal, and the strange, which featured work from Aimee Bender, Amelia Gray, Etgar Keret, Jonathan Lethem, Elizabeth McCracken, and Joe Meno. She currently teaches at the University of Pittsburgh. At the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, she received the Teaching Writing Fellowship and Provost’s Fellowship.
In one story, a young woman created through genetic manipulation is destroyed by the same force that gave her life.
In another, a workman in Andrew Carnegie’s steel mills is turned into a medical oddity by the brutal power of the furnaces—and eventually revitalized by that same deformity.
Other protagonists include: a kidnapped woman who uses magic to escape her captors, but becomes a victim of her own powers; a fisherman who finds himself mentally unhinged by a brush with the supernatural.
Sachdeva's stories have a way of pointing out unique truths about our society and humanity. Each of her stories are research-based, exquisitely balancing the fantastical elements with a grounded scientific basis. The inspiration for many of her stories begins with a piece of history: e.g., the kidnapping of young women by Boko Haram; John Milton's writing Paradise Lost.
Anjali Sachdeva’s fiction has been published widely. She counts Dave Eggers and Kelly Link among her literary admirers, as well as Chris Offut, and Kevin Brockmeier. Her short story “Baby” won the Orange/Northern Woman Short Story prize. She is a former editor at Unstuck, a journal of the futuristic, the fantastic, the surreal, and the strange, which featured work from Aimee Bender, Amelia Gray, Etgar Keret, Jonathan Lethem, Elizabeth McCracken, and Joe Meno. She currently teaches at the University of Pittsburgh. At the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, she received the Teaching Writing Fellowship and Provost’s Fellowship.
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