Anand Giridharadas

Signing these books at the Barnes & Noble in Union Square is perhaps the right time to make a confession. When my first book, INDIA CALLING, came out, @priyaparker and I excitedly went to this location to see my book displayed front and center in this iconic store. It was quite strange, then, to discover that it was neither front nor center, and very possibly not even in the store. We looked and we looked. Even my well-honed investigative skills could not aid me to locate this book. And then we found it on an extremely high floor, a single copy or maybe two, sandwiched between other titles in a category I catastrophizingly remember as “Niche Indian-themed books you probably don’t want to read.” (In fact, as the picture from back then attests, it was “India History.”) So we did what any normal people would do in that situation: we took the book or two, brought it all the way downstairs, and displayed it most prominently on the front table. Thank you, @bnunionsqnyc, for this beautiful display that makes me not have to risk arrest. All these books are now signed, ready for you.