02140cam a2200301 4500 1708157325 TxAuBib 20241110120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781696600071 1696600073 0026816390 Axis360 TxAuBib Swamy, Shruti. A House Is a Body [Boundless]. Unabridged. Highbridge Co, 2020. "This collection will change the way all stories—short and long—are told, written, and consumed." —KIESE LAYMON, author of HeavyIn two-time O. Henry-prize winner Swamy's debut collection of stories, dreams collide with reality, modernity collides with antiquity, myth with true identity, and women grapple with desire, with ego, with motherhood and mortality. In "Earthly Pleasures," Radika, a young painter living alone in San Francisco, begins a secret romance with one of India's biggest celebrities. In "A Simple Composition," a husband's moment of crisis leads to his wife's discovery of a dark, ecstatic joy and the sense of a new beginning. In the title story, an exhausted mother watches, distracted and paralyzed, as a California wildfire approaches her home. With a knife blade's edge and precision, the stories of A House Is a Body travel from India to America and back again to reveal the small moments of beauty, pain, and power that contain the world."The beauty and timeless grace of these stories will always speak for themselves." —PETER ORNER, author of Maggie Brown & Others. Format: Acoustik. FICTION / Short Stories (single author); FICTION / Cultural Heritage; FICTION / Asian American & Pacific Islander. General Adult. Importer Version: 2016-03-11.01 Import Date: 2024-11-10 20:00:03. Fiction lcgft Asian American & Pacific Islander. Fiction lcgft Cultural Heritage. Fiction lcgft Short Stories (single author.) Nankani, Soneela, narrator. https://marfa.boundless.baker-taylor.com/Title?itemId=0026816390 TXMAR