An Evening with Vaishnavi Patel

Join us with Vaishnavi Patel as we celebrate the release of her book Ten Incarnations of Rebellion.

About this Event

A can’t-miss event for readers of feminist fantasy, historical fiction, and retellings of epic proportions.

Join us for an evening with bestselling author Vaishnavi Patel as she celebrates the release of her highly anticipated novel, Ten Incarnations of Rebellion. Building on the acclaim of her debut Kaikeyi, Patel returns with a powerful reimagining that blends myth, history, and revolution in a sweeping epic rooted in South Asian lore.

The event will include a conversation (partner TBD), author Q&A, and book signing.

“A meticulous interrogation of the mythmaking, contradictions, and sacrifices of revolution . . . Patel never writes the easy story; she writes the infuriating, frustrating, necessary story.”—R. F. Kuang, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel

Vaishnavi Patel is the New York Times bestselling author of Kaikeyi and Goddess of the River. Her novels have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Condé Nast Traveler, Bustle, and more. She is a lawyer specializing in civil rights litigation, including issues of gender and racial justice. Ten Incarnations of Rebellion is her third novel.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Kaikeyi comes an epic and daring novel that imagines an alternate version of 1960s India that was never liberated from the British, and a young woman’s struggle to change the tides of history.

Kalki Divekar grows up a daughter of Kingston—a city the British built on the ashes of Bombay. The older generation, including her father, have been lost to the brutal hunt for rebels. Young men are drafted to fight wars they will never return from. And the people of her city are more interested in fighting one another than facing their true oppressors.

When tragedy strikes close to home, Kalki begins to play a dangerous game with small acts of resistance, tempered by cautious, level-headed Yashu and fortified by Fauzia, whose dreams of the future awaken Kalki’s heart. Together, they found Kingston’s new independence movement, obtaining jobs working for the British while secretly planning to destroy the empire from the inside out. But one wrong move means certain death, and when facing threats from all quarters, Kalki must decide whether it’s more important to be a hero or to survive.

Set over the course of a decade and told as ten moments from Kalki’s life that mirror the Dashavatara, the ten avatars of Vishnu, Ten Incarnations of Rebellion is a sweeping, deeply felt speculative novel of empowerment, friendship, self-determination, and the true meaning of freedom.

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