An elegantly styled and evocative collection bound together by the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself. The twelve stories in this volume transport a reader back and forth from the villages and towns of India’s west coast to life in the concrete canyons of New York. But whether a story is set on our own shores or in the Indian Diaspora in the west, the heroes and heroines are flesh-and-blood characters such as we meet in our daily lives-the odds are stacked against them as we so often find them stacked against us.There are stories that make one laugh: Peter finds himself battling an ever-multiplying army of ants; a romantically inclined aging man plans a bizarre end-of-the-millennium party; a father tries to show his son in far-off Paris how to write a letter home when his typewriter is falling apart. And stories that tug at the heartstrings: a widowed Indian woman in New York, forgetting her own loneliness, reaches out to a Chinese neighbor who seems even lonelier; a penniless street urchin riding a late-night tram spares more than a thought for the family with whom he shares a pavement; a college youth loses his love not once but twice to the same cause.
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