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- Sugar, Smoke, Song
- Book
- 2020
- Published by: Red Hen Press
summary
Sugar, Smoke, Song is a collection of nine linked stories 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 Asian American women carrying histories both unseen and cyclically lived.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. 5-6
- Dedication
- pp. 7-8
- Table of Contents
- pp. 9-12
- Ode on an Asian Dog
- pp. 44-62
- Swan Lake Tango
- pp. 63-76
- The Stars of Bollywood House
- pp. 77-117
- The Carnival
- pp. 118-130
- Mufaro's Beautiful Daughter
- pp. 131-150
- Sugar, Smoke, Song
- pp. 151-181
- One Tiny Thing
- pp. 182-215
- Biographical Note
- p. 216
Additional Information
ISBN
9781597098908
Related ISBN(s)
9781597098915
MARC Record
OCLC
1259427678
Pages
216
Launched on MUSE
2022-02-26
Language
English
Open Access
No