Priyanka Champaneri

Priyanka Champaneri is an American writer of Indian heritage and the author of the novel The City of Good Death, which won the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing.

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  1. 1. The City Of Good Death

    Set in Varanasi along the Ganges, this atmospheric novel follows the manager of a death hostel where pilgrims come to seek liberation in their final days. When an unidentified body is pulled from the river, the delicate equilibrium of the household fractures, exposing buried secrets, old grievances, and the shifting loyalties of a community bound by ritual and necessity. As the mystery unravels, the characters confront duty, desire, and the elusive promise of a “good death,” revealing the city’s intimate entanglement of the sacred and the everyday.

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