Author: Nalini Jones
Publisher: HarperCollins
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 233
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788172237066
Description
With this collection of beautifully written, interconnected stories, Nalini Jones establishes herself as a strong new voice in contemporary fiction. Home to her characters is a Catholic town in India, but the tales of their relationships, ambitions and concerns are altogether universal, capturing the expectations, joys and losses experienced by families everywhere.
A mother pours her religious fervour out in letters to her son whom she has sent away to a seminary. Years after his father's sudden death in a movie theatre, an older man begins to see his long-dead parent riding a bicycle around town. A brash, eccentric aunt speaks her mind and leaves home to tend her mother's cataract surgery, a daughter wonders how much she should reveal of her new life in the United States. American childhoods, Indian childhoods, love abroad, love at home
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. In the Garden
2. What You call inter
3. The Bold, the Beautiful
4. The Crow and the Monkey
5. Half the Story
6. Home for a Short Time
7. We Think of Your Every Day
8. Carrying
9. This Is Your Home Also