In Sensorium: Notes for My People

The 2022 Kirkus Prize Winner for Nonfiction

Fragrancehas long been used tomarkwho is civilized and who is barbaric, who is pure and who is polluted, who is free and who is damned-

Focusing their gaze on our most primordial sense, writer and perfumer Tanaïs weavesa brilliant and expansive memoir, a reckoning thatoffers a critical, alternate history of South Asiafrom an American Bangladeshi Muslim femme perspective.From stories of theirchildhoodin the South, Midwest, and New York;to transcenden...