# Event Details - **Event Name**: Devi S. Laskar with Alka Joshi - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 14 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Tue, 14 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 pm - **Event Description**: Award-winning author, Devi S. Laskar, joins us to talk about her extraordinary new novel, "Midnight, at the War" with Alka Joshi.About this EventAward-winning author, Devi S. Laskar, joins us to talk about her extraordinary new novel, "Midnight, at the War" with Alka Joshi. 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.”About the BookForeign correspondent Rita Das has left New York for the war-torn Middle East, a reassignment she asks for after she learns she is pregnant and is uncertain whether the father is her husband or her lover. As she strives to shed light on the fallouts of the war, Rita finds herself embroiled in her own conflicts with her interpreter and her news editor, her sources and her colleagues. She is unable to accept the loss of her mother and deal with her guilt for not being at her side when she died.Fiercely independent and ambitious (and in her journalism, deeply humane), Rita is also in denial about her need for intimate human relationships. As she goes into the field to report on the war, she grapples with the physical and emotional tolls of her pregnant body and a turbulent region where the numbing repetition of war slides suddenly into horror. When her news editor delivers urgent orders for her to return to New York, Rita is faced with a choice about how she wants to live her life as a journalist and a soon-to-be mother.Set in the years immediately after 9/11, and drawn from Devi Laskar’s own experience as a government reporter in the 1990s and early aughts, Midnight, at the War is an exploration of love and grief, of moral ambiguity and forgiveness, of modern war and the wars we wage within ourselves.About the SpeakersDevi S. Laskar is the author of The Atlas of Reds and Blues, which won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and the Crook’s Corner Book Prize, and was named a finalist for the Northern California Book Awards. Laskar’s second novel, Circa, was a GOOP Book Club pick. In 2022, USA TODAY named Laskar among “50 AAPI authors” to read. She is an alumna of the OpEd Project and VONA and holds an MFA from Columbia University. Originally from North Carolina, Laskar now lives in Northern California.Alka JoshiBorn in India and raised in the U.S. since she was nine, Alka Joshi has a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from California College of Arts. Joshi's debut novel, The Henna Artist, immediately became a NYT bestseller, a Reese Witherspoon Bookclub pick, was Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, & is in development at Netflix as a TV series. The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (2021) and The Perfumist of Paris (2023) completed the Jaipur Trilogy. Her fourth novel, Six Days in Bombay, will be released in February 2025. She is currently working on her fifth novel.COVID SAFETY PROTOCOLS: We strongly encourage attendees to wear masks at our events, although they will NOT be required. We will have masks available for attendees who want them. Do NOT attend the event if you, or any member of your family, have any respiratory symptoms (e.g. cough, runny nose, and/or sore throat), or have had a significant exposure to someone who has tested positive for COVID-19.ACCESSIBILITY: We never want cost to be a barrier to admission for our community. Please email events [at] keplers [dot] org if you would like to attend this event but cannot afford a ticket. To request an accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) for this event, please email events [at] keplers [dot] org at least one week prior to the event. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/menlo-park/devi-s-laskar-with-alka-joshi/100001975342735296 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 11.49, max: 45.09, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Menlo Park - **state**: CA - **country**: United States - **location**: Kepler's Books - **lat**: 37.453569 - **long**: -122.182167 - **full address**: Kepler's Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Devi S. Laskar with Alka Joshi - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/9beb9744cc0de526cdf740196e57786edd7c0780f89b560ca277af0e94a48900-rimg-w1067-h1600-dcbfbfbb-gmir.jpg?v=1764289713 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Devi S. Laskar with Alka Joshi being held? - **A:** Devi S. Laskar with Alka Joshi takes place on Tue, 14 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Tue, 14 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Kepler's Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, United States. - **Q**: How much do tickets cost for Devi S. Laskar with Alka Joshi? - **A:** Ticket prices for Devi S. Laskar with Alka Joshi range from USD 11 to USD 45 depending on the ticket type. Here's a full breakdown of available ticket types:Ticket TypePriceAvailabilityGeneral Admission + BookUSD 45 + USD 3 feeAvailableGeneral AdmissionUSD 17 + USD 2 feeAvailableStudent/Low IncomeUSD 11 + USD 1 feeAvailable - **Q**: Who is organizing Devi S. Laskar with Alka Joshi? - **A:** Devi S. Laskar with Alka Joshi is organized by Kepler's Literary Foundation. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** Devi S. Laskar with Alka Joshi is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. 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