Do You Know How Lucky You Are?
a transnational memoir
a transnational memoir
About Rani
Rani Neutill is the author of the memoir Do You Know How Lucky You Are? (forthcoming HarperCollins India) and co-editor of Bangtan Remixed: A Critical BTS Reader (Duke 2024). She is a recipient of a 2022 artist fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and has taught ethnic American and postcolonial literature at Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins University and other institutions. She currently teaches classes in creative writing at GrubStreet in Boston and Asian and Ethnic American literature at Tufts University and Emerson College. Her work has been published in The New York Times Book Review, ELLE.com, Al Jazeera English, CNN, Buzzfeed, Cosmopolitan, The Washington Post, amongst other publications. She is currently working on a novel about desire, race, and academia, titled Pick Me, and is represented by Lucy Cleland at Frances Goldin Literary Agency and Naomi Barton at A Suitable Agency.
About Do You Know How Lucky You Are?
Do You Know How Lucky You Are? (forthcoming HarperCollins India) narrates Rani's relationship with her mentally ill Bengali immigrant mother, and the way she tragically died. The book maps the history of colonialism, gendered madness, and immigration. It examines how these forces impacted two generations of mother/daughter relationships.
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