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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.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Half-Title Page, Title Page, Copyright
  2. pp. 1-4
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  1. Acknowledgments
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  1. Dedication
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  1. Table of Contents
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  1. The Ruins
  2. pp. 13-24
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  1. BX Blues: A Dance Manual for Heartbreak
  2. pp. 25-43
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  1. Ode on an Asian Dog
  2. pp. 44-62
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  1. Swan Lake Tango
  2. pp. 63-76
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  1. The Stars of Bollywood House
  2. pp. 77-117
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  1. The Carnival
  2. pp. 118-130
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  1. Mufaro's Beautiful Daughter
  2. pp. 131-150
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  1. Sugar, Smoke, Song
  2. pp. 151-181
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  1. One Tiny Thing
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  1. Biographical Note
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