08/31/2026
Celebrate the release of Meghana Mysore's new story collection, Let All Our Ghosts Depart! Meghana will be in conversation with Baltimore author Marian Crotty.
Tuesday, September 8 at 7 p.m.
Greedy Reads. 320 W 29th St, Baltimore, MD 21211
REGISTER: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meghana-mysore-presents-let-all-our-ghosts-depart-tickets-1995529369061
About Let All Our Ghosts Depart:
In Meghana Mysore's debut short story collection, present-day women and girls of the South Asian diaspora grapple with belonging and are haunted by intergenerational inheritances. Mysore, herself the daughter of Indian immigrants, spins her stories around narrators struggling to assimilate into the surreal world around them. In the world of these stories, ghosts are real--in “Repair Shop,” dead mothers reappear as chiding, broken-down cars; in “Hoarder,” the narrator’s ex-lovers transform into scarves that won't let her go. In another story, a daughter, trapped inside her grief, spends her days Face Timing with her dead father, watching him become a young man she never knew.
At turns absurd and darkly humorous, and sometimes speculative, Mysore’s stories touch on real-life experiences of intergenerational trauma, womanhood, the fluidity of desire and longing, and coming home to one’s body. Her characters have faced violences small and large, holding losses that bind them to their pasts and weigh them down in daily life. Each of these stories contains an experience of transformation, be it small or monumental for these women, who find spaces of freedom and delight within their circumstances.
