# Event Details - **Event Name**: Sangamithra Iyer, GOVERNING BODIES: A MEMOIR, A CONFLUENCE, A WATERSHED - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 16 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Fri, 16 Jan, 2026 at 08:00 pm - **Event Description**: A beautifully rendered debut memoir of family, legacy, conservation, the natural world—and those who inhabit it.About this EventSangamithra Iyer visits the store to discuss her memoir, Governing Bodies: A Memoir, a Confluence, a Watershed, a beautifully rendered debut of family, legacy, conservation, the natural world—and those who inhabit it. As a civil engineer, Iyer knows about resilience from studying soils and water. As an animal rights activist, she advocates for a revolution in how we value and relate to other species. And as the child of immigrants from India, she searches for submerged histories.Registration is not required, but helps us anticipate audience size. If you'd like to RSVP, please do so here!Animated by a series of questions—How do we disentangle ourselves from systems of harm? Is it possible to grasp the scale of planetary sorrow and emerge with truth and love as our guides, rather than despair? What is the relationship between individual action and systemic change?—this memoir takes the form of three meandering rivers, each written as a letter. Addressing the first of them to her grandfather, Iyer assembles the story of a man who embraced Gandhi’s philosophy and went to work developing wells in Tamil Nadu. In a second letter, addressed to her father, she explores their shared interest in cultivating compassion for all beings. And then in a final letter, addressed to readers, she braids these explorations of her familial past with her own experiences as a woman of color and citizen of the world, always seeking ways to move beyond resignation and restore flow.A lyrical story of lineages and an urgently needed reckoning with the ways bodies are both controlled and liberated, Governing Bodies is a timeless work with profoundly timely relevance.Sangamithra Iyer is an environmental planner, engineer, and writer. She is the recipient of a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, a Café Royal Foundation Literature Grant and the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellowship at the New York Public Library. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/seattle/sangamithra-iyer-governing-bodies-a-memoir-a-confluence-a-watershed/100001977112797600 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Seattle - **state**: WA - **country**: United States - **location**: The Elliott Bay Book Company - **lat**: 47.614679 - **long**: -122.319631 - **full address**: The Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Avenue, Seattle, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Sangamithra Iyer, GOVERNING BODIES: A MEMOIR, A CONFLUENCE, A WATERSHED - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/19cf7b2412d3b6ac0d5e3d44b6863f1790ab966e77c0dc4d846b8a529a9691af-rimg-w1200-h600-dca9d2c4-gmir.jpg?v=1765904510 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Sangamithra Iyer, GOVERNING BODIES: A MEMOIR, A CONFLUENCE, A WATERSHED being held? - **A:** Sangamithra Iyer, GOVERNING BODIES: A MEMOIR, A CONFLUENCE, A WATERSHED takes place on Fri, 16 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Fri, 16 Jan, 2026 at 08:00 pm at The Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Avenue, Seattle, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Sangamithra Iyer, GOVERNING BODIES: A MEMOIR, A CONFLUENCE, A WATERSHED? - **A:** Sangamithra Iyer, GOVERNING BODIES: A MEMOIR, A CONFLUENCE, A WATERSHED is organized by Elliott Bay Book Company. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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