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• Long-listed for Desmond Elliott Prize 2022 (UK)

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'A story you won't be able to get out of your head.' Cosmopolitan 'Fierce, contemporary and completely absorbing, Lessons in Love and Other Crimes is a fresh and forensic novel asking ages-old questions - what makes a writer? What makes a lover? And pressing for our moment now - what makes a racist? Part thriller, part elegy to modern British life, this novel will shock some readers while others will cheer as Elizabeth Chakrabarty ties the many threads of an everyday crime into an extraordinary lovers' knot. Formally inventive and erotically charged, compassion and intelligence shine through every sentence Chakrabarty writes.' Preti Taneja, author of We That Are Young 'Gripping and unnerving, a story about the relentlessness of racism'. Catherine Mayer 'An important new voice for our troubled times. Vibrant and passionate storytelling.' Tessa McWatt

69 new books by Black and POC authors out in 2021 ‘Centred on the fall-out of a race crime, this multi-layered literary debut is an occasionally heartbreaking read, and a story you won’t be able to get of your head.’ https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/entertainment/g35042485/best-books-black-poc-authors-2021/?slide=58 -- Layla Haidrani * Cosmopolitan UK * ‘Believe me, this book is going to shake things up for all those who read it.’ -- Katherine Lit Adventures (@every.atom.reads) * Instagram * ‘Texting’s Not Touching’ https://visualverse.org/?ct=t%28EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_5_9_2019_14_42_COPY_02%29&mc_cid=21ed854bec&mc_eid=b0353fd57e -- Elizabeth Chakrabarty * Visual Verse * ‘Books to read in 2021’ ‘Elizabeth Chakrabarty’s Lessons in Love and Other Crimes which immediately grabbed my attention. I love how it is bookended with essays which contextualise the story – about Tesya who leaves her job after being subjected to a hate crime.’ https://theasianwriter.co.uk/2021/02/08/books-to-read-in-2021/ -- Farhana Smith * The Asian Writier * ‘Chakrabarty’s story is so stark that no reader could turn away, like so many of us turn away from or dismiss issues that do not directly affect us.’ https://twitter.com/jayzaff/status/1379109172105580547/photo/2 -- Juliano Zaffino * Twitter * Lessons in Love and Other Crimes by Elizabeth Chakrabarty ‘Lessons in Love and Other Crimes is a gripping read, with rich characters, compelling prose, and a riveting plot. But it is also so much more. On each page, it encourages us to consider the inarguable reality of racism.’ https://lunate.co.uk/reviews/lessons-in-love-and-other-crimes-by-elizabeth-chakrabarty -- Mariah Feria * Lunate * ‘It's a scintillating, beguiling and eye-opening read and without a doubt my favourite book of 2021.’ https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3933330672 -- Lou * Goodreads * Lessons in Love and Other Crimes by Elizabeth Chakrabarty, review: an innovative hybrid novel ‘a multi-layered and thought-provoking work’ https://inews.co.uk/culture/books/lessons-in-love-and-other-crimes-review-innovative-novel-motives-impact-hate-crime-967894 -- Alys Keys * The i * Review: Lessons in Love and Other Crimes ‘A surprising combination of charming romance and tense criminal investigation to narrow down a predator, these two genres put into play by Chakrabarty have a somewhat abrasive relationship with each other throughout the text, but their opposing forces are a perfect pairing.’ https://dura-dundee.org.uk/2021/05/25/lessons-in-love-and-other-crimes/ -- Mhari Aitchison * Dundee University Review of the Arts *

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Elizabeth Chakrabarty is an interdisciplinary artist who uses creative and critical writing, besides performance, to explore themes of race, gender and sexuality. Her story Eurovision was short-listed for the Asian Writer Short Story Prize, published in Dividing Lines (Dahlia Publishing, 2017). Her shorter creative-critical work has appeared in English and in translation in New Writing Dundee, Women and the Arts, Glänta, and Espace Lesbien Rencontres et Revue d’Etudes Lesbiennes. She is a contributor to the anthology edited by Kirsty Gunn, Imagined Spaces, published in 2020 (Saraband). She lives in London.

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