Goodnight and God Bless (PB)

As each chapter echoes a bedtime rumination Goodnight and God Bless is about books writers mice mothers airport hotels and other such unexpectedly thought-provoking subjects. Snugly interwoven with a warmly personal and anecdotal history of the author this wise and witty book offers an ironic take on nearly everything. Drawing from her experiences as a woman mother daughter wife and writer Anita Nair marks over a decade of her literary career with deliciously amusing quotes mostly unnecessary and unabashed trivia footnotes and other erudite diversions. This is the perfect book to keep by your bedside to dip and delve into anytime. About the Author Anita Nair is the bestselling author of The Better Man Ladies Coupe Mistress Lessons in Forgetting and Cut Like Wound. She has also published a collection of poems titled Malabar Mind and a collection of essays titled Goodnight & God Bless and has written two plays and the screenplay for the movie adaptation of her novel Lessons in Forgetting which won the National Film Award for 2012. She was awarded the Central Sahitya Akademi award for her contribution to Children's Literature in 2013. Her books have been translated into 30 languages. Her new novel Idris Keeper of the Light was short-listed for The Hindu Literary Prize. She also runs a Creative Writing Mentorship program in Bangalore called Anita's Attic. Visit her at www.anitanair.net and www.anitasattic.com or follow her on twitter @anitanairauthor