Education
Nani Power attended Bennington College, Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts Americaines in France, and Georgetown University.
Nani Power
1 College Dr, Bennington, VT 05201, United States
Nani Power studied at Bennington College.
500 17th Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20006, United States
Nani Power studied at Corcoran School of the Arts and Design.
14 Rue Bonaparte, 75006 Paris, France
Nani Power studied at L'Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts.
3700 O St NW, Washington, DC 20057, United States
Nani Power studied at Georgetown University.
(Crawling at Night is a searing, unforgettable portrait of...)
Crawling at Night is a searing, unforgettable portrait of New York City and the appetites and self-sabotaging patterns of its displaced inhabitants.
https://www.amazon.com/Crawling-at-Night-Nani-Power/dp/0802138845
2001
(Nani Power's The Good Remains is an enchanting tribute to...)
Nani Power's The Good Remains is an enchanting tribute to Dickens's A Christmas Carol that follows a beguiling cast of characters in a small Virginia town heavy with history.
https://www.amazon.com/Good-Remains-Novel-Nani-Power/dp/080214022X
2002
(The recipes shared in this collection are far from ordina...)
The recipes shared in this collection are far from ordinary. They are treasured family recipes from vegetarian homes in India - from homemade cheese cubes in a rich cilantro and almond curry to coconut-stuffed okra and luscious potato-curry dumplings. Power's recipes and stories pave the road to understanding a culture that is at the same time ancient and so very much part of our modern world.
https://www.amazon.com/Ginger-Ganesh-Adventures-Cooking-Culture/dp/1582437254
2010
Nani Power attended Bennington College, Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts Americaines in France, and Georgetown University.
Nani Power was a fine-arts major who worked as a caterer, nanny, nursing home aide, sandwich seller, and chef before taking a writing course that inspired her to write her first novel, Crawling at Night. Her stories have appeared in numerous literary magazines. Also, Power is a contributor to Salon.com.
Nani Power's previous experience as a chef in a Japanese restaurant served her well. One of the main characters of her book Crawling at Night, Ito, is a Japanese chef working in a sushi restaurant in lower Manhattan. Ito, who is in his sixties, fled Japan after losing his wife to cancer, leaving behind a thirteen-year-old son. His possessions consist mainly of a pornography collection, and sex is always in his thoughts. Mariane, who is in her late thirties, is an alcoholic waitress who left behind a baby daughter who would now be in her teens. She sneaks sake for her coffee and sleeps with many men, including Yoshi, the owner of the restaurant. Both Mariane and Ito are despairing and self-destructive, and because of Mariane's raw sexuality and the fact that she reminds Ito of the prostitute he frequented when his wife was dying, he is drawn to her. The story takes place over two days and nights. Power employs flashbacks and writing that is experimental as well as straightforward and literary. Secondary characters include Ling Yu, an erotic dancer Ito meets in a Chinese club, and Ton, her slow-witted Vietnamese boyfriend.
Power focuses on the dark picture of urban life. She explores the failure of people to build meaningful relationships. The title of the novel comes from the Japanese term yobai. It refers to a Japanese farmer's tradition of accommodating large groups of overnight visitors on futons across the floor. If a man wishes to sleep with one of the women, he hides his face and crawls to her futon. If he is rejected, he can return to his own bed without having his identity known.
(Nani Power's The Good Remains is an enchanting tribute to...)
2002(Crawling at Night is a searing, unforgettable portrait of...)
2001(The recipes shared in this collection are far from ordina...)
2010Quotes from others about the person
Mary Gaitskill: "Power has a gift for quick characterizations that layer oppositional qualities with subtlety and intensity."
Nani Power has two children.