This "sterling debut" short story collection explores immigrant life in prose that is "crisp and economical but also poetic and full of imagery" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).The nine linked stories of Reema Rajbanshi's Sugar, Smoke, Song are set in the Bronx, California, India, and Brazil. Following the secrets and passions of young women, these stories and their narrators cross genres and rules to arrive at unforeseen lives. A subway rider remembers enacting the gods with her estranged twin; a concert usher discovers her tango-dancing boyfriend's lover; and a literacy worker confesses the gambles she and others have lost through the bluesy singers she admires.Told through semi-experimental play with nonlinear plots, plural narrators, and hybrid prose, these stories embody the experiences of immigrants from Africa, Asia and South America who carrying histories both unseen and cyclically lived. Views: 501
Hi, all! I'm back...er, I mean, we're back and boy do we have a tale to tell!Now that Win is up and about, he's been a very busy bee. He's jumped in with both feet, getting involved in our community and living his best life now that he's unencumbered by his spy past. He's even joined the Ebenezer Falls garden club and made all the female member's toes curl with his British charm.On a flower scouting trip for the garden club's annual spring planting in the town square, while Win is ogling lavender bushes and pansies, I fall head first into a pile of soil where a body's buried.
Not just any body either. It's the body of the husband of a close acquaintance of mine—a close acquaintance who just happens to own the nursery and the pile of dirt I fall into head first.When he begs me to investigate, there's no way I'm going to turn him down, but there are obstacles to overcome.For instance, the love of my life. My... Views: 501
