Join us in welcoming Nikita Lalwani as she discusses her novel You People with guest, writer and immigration advocate, Rebekah Entralgo Fern´andez!

About You People:

The Pizzeria Vesuvio looks like any other Italian restaurant in London - with a few small differences. The chefs who make the pizza fiorentinas are Sri Lankan, and half the kitchen staff are illegal immigrants. At the centre is Tuli, the restaurant's charismatic proprietor and resident Robin Hood, who promises to help anyone in need. Welsh nineteen-year-old Nia, haunted by her troubled past, is running from her family. Shan, having fled the Sri Lankan civil war, is desperate to find his. But when Tuli's guidance leads them all into dangerous territory, and the extent of his mysterious operation unravels, each is faced with an impossible moral choice. In a world where the law is against you, how far would you be willing to lie for a chance to live?

Nikita Lalwani is a novelist born in Kota, Rajasthan and raised in Cardiff, Wales. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a judge for the 2020 Rathbones Folio prize for literature. Her work has been translated into sixteen languages. YOU PEOPLE, her third novel was published on 2 April 2020. She is a contributing screenwriter on a television series for BBC1/Amazon Studios (Big Talk productions), to be broadcast in 2020.

Rebekah Entralgo is a writer, editor, and advocate for undocumented workers. She currently serves as the managing editor of Inequality.org and previously covered immigration and labor as a reporter at ThinkProgress. A longtime advocate for immigrant rights, she led communications and media strategy at Freedom for Immigrants, a national nonprofit working to abolish immigration detention. Rebekah holds a Bachelor of Arts in Editing, Writing, and Media from Florida State University, where she was an undergraduate research assistant studying growing activist movements on social media.

You People will be available at Lost City Books!