COMING SOON …
‘NO ONE GETS OUT OF HERE ALIVE possesses the rare courage to say what is usually left unsaid. Ranbir Sidhu turns the self inside out, examining memory, desire, failure, inheritance and loss with extraordinary honesty and precision. Resisting the temptation of nostalgia, he creates a memoir that is at once tender and brutal, intimate and expansive. The result is a work of witness – arresting and impossible to look away from.’
AANCHAL MALHOTRA
‘One of the bravest and most honest reminiscences on one’s life, NO ONE GETS OUT OF HERE ALIVE surpasses the definitions and confines of memoir, razing the walls of Partition, to unveil the scars of a country divided and unravelling the divided souls of its people who were compelled to wander endlessly. Ranbir Sidhu, being a master narrator, takes the reader through the ruins of his parents’ lives and his own. What emerges is the story of a fragmented self striving to be whole after the innumerable partitions it has been subjected to; its every attempt at a piecing-together results in graver ruptures and schisms. This is memoir crafted with claws and fangs, which leaves you mangled and torn.’
K.R. MEERA
‘A moving and devastating memoir—fragrant with lands old and new—that tells of scattered families. Ranbir Sidhu is an exquisite cartographer who traces emotional journeys across continents.’
RADHIKA OBEROI
AND TWO EXCITING REISSUES WITH NEW INTRODUCTIONS
ABOUT RANBIR
Ranbir Sidhu’s memoir No one gets out of here alive, chronicling the deaths, and lives, of his parents, will appear in 2026. His books include Night in Delhi, Dark Star, Deep Singh Blue, Our Cities Are Not Your Cities (previously Good Indian Girls), Object Lessons (in 12 Sides w/Afterglow), Hacking Trump A Writer Remembers, and a chapbook The Fabulary. He is a winner of the Pushcart Prize and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, among other awards. New essays recently appeared in the New England Review, The Baffler and Los Angeles Review of Books.
His work appears in Conjunctions, The Georgia Review, Fence, Zyzzyva, The Missouri Review, Other Voices, The Happy Hypocrite, The Literary Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Vice, The Wire, The Towner, Los Angeles Review of Books, Salon, Terrain, and The Nation. He has been featured in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Village Voice and Gawker.
His essay, “The Indian Wedding that Exploded in Violence,” was selected as one of the Notable Essays in Best American Essays 2016, edited by Jonathan Franzen. He is the author of several full-length plays, including True East…, Sangeet, and Conquistadors, and has been awarded residencies by the Edward F. Albee Foundation, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Villa Montalvo.
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