Rochelle Potkar, on The D'Costa Family (A Novel) ... extract from a book presentation

[Frederick Noronha]

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Kalyan (Maharashtra)-born Rochelle Potkar comes from a Goan family. She lives in Bombay/Mumbai. She turned to being a full-time writer and poet at the age of 27. She works in genres including poetry, short fiction and explores form like haibun (a Japanese short poetic‐prose hybrid). Her first book of short stories: The Arithmetic of Breasts & Other Stories (2014). First poetry collection: Four Degrees of Separation (2016). Other books include Paper Asylum (haibun-style work) and Bombay Hangovers (short stories). Among other achievements, she was the writer-in-residence at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in the Fall of 2015. Her stories often explore relationships, city life (Mumbai), identity, resili­ence, the inner lives of characters, especially women. She uses a range of forms (poetry, stories, haibun, and experimental hybrids). Here, she talks about her latest book (2025) called The D'Costa Family: A Novel. This is an extract of her talk at the DogEarsEtc bookshop at Margao, on Sep 20, 2025. The full recording should be up on her website. See https://rochellepotkar.com/ and https://rochellepotkar.com/my-blog/ Recorded by Frederick Noronha (FN). Ph : +91-9822 122436.  

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