At the Miami Book Fair this past weekend, Ed Devereux, owner of Unabridged Bookstore in Chicago, met Kiran Desai, the author of his favorite novel for 2025, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny (Hogarth). Desai was on a panel called "Tracing Invisible Currents: Multigenerational Stories" with Susan Choi and Gish Jen. The Fair, cofounded in 1984 by Mitchell Kaplan, owner of Miami's Books & Books, drew some 80,000 attendees over eight days, and featured 715 authors, moderators and experts.
