White dancing elephants
Subtitle: stories
By: Chaya Bhuvaneswar
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9781945814617
Subjects: Fiction
Work titles: Short stories
Description: A woman grieves a miscarriage, haunted by the Buddha's birth. An artist with schizophrenia tries to survive hatred and indifference in small-town India by turning to the beauty of sculpture and dance. Orphans in India get pulled into a strange "rescue" mission aimed at stripping their mysterious powers. A brief but intense affair between two women culminates in regret and betrayal. A boy seeks memories of his sister in the legend of a woman who weds death. In sixteen remarkable stories, Chaya Bhuvaneswar spotlights diverse women of color--cunning, bold, and resolute--facing sexual harassment and racial violence, and occasionally inflicting that violence on each other.
Table of contents: title: White dancing elephants --; title: The story of the woman who fell in love with death --; title: Talinda --; title: A Shaker chair --; title: Jagatishwaran --; title: The bang bang --; title: Orange popsicles --; title: Neela: Bhopal, 1984 --; title: Chronicles of a marriage, foretold --; title: Heitor --; title: Newberry --; title: Asha in Allston --; title: The life you save isn't your own --; title: The orphan handler --; title: In Allegheny --; title: The goddess of beauty goes bowling --; title: Adristakama.