What Lies Between Us by Nayomi Munaweera We begin with a prologue about a moon bear that kills her own cub. We progress to a first-person narration by an unnamed woman, who appears to be incarcerated. She tells us her story, from girlhood in Kandy, Sri Lanka to motherhood in California. We understand that the protagonist…
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Book Review – Wild Words: Four Tamil Poets
Wild Words: Four Tamil Poets | Translated and edited by Lakshmi Holmström This is a powerful collection of poems by four Tamil women, all of them ostracized not too long ago for writing what was called vulgar poetry. Upholders of ancient Tamil tradition demanded these books be burnt, and these women be stopped from writing…
Book Review – Stay With Me
Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo Yejide and Akin have a happy marriage for the most part; they fell in love while at university, they continue to remain in love. But there is a child-sized hole in their lives, and to fill it up with a living, breathing child, Yejide will do everything. New medicine…
Book Review – The Wal-Mart Book of the Dead
As its title suggests, vignette collection “The Wal-Mart Book of the Dead” by Lucy Biederman (Vine Leaves, 2017) serves as a bridge between two worlds: the living, or at least those with real-life experience working at or otherwise depending on a Wal-Mart, and the gods, those unseen architects and beneficiaries of American Late Capitalism. A…
Book Review – Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
Balli Kaur Jaswal’s Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows In Southall, a brown suburb of London, young Nikki is hired to teach an adult literacy class marketed as a creative writing course to a group of Punjabi widows at the local Gurudwara. These women show up at the temple everyday to pass their time in a…
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