KARAN MAHAJAN is the author of The Association of Small Bombs, a finalist for the National Book Award, winner of a New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and named one of the 10 best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review. Mahajan’s debut novel, Family Planning, was a finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize. He has been selected as one of Granta’s best young American novelists, and his writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The New York Review of Books, and elsewhere. He is an associate professor of Literary Arts at Brown University. His most recent book is The Complex: A Novel (Viking).