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The Way You Want to Be Loved

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"A collection of poignant, finely crafted stories set against the backdrop of violence that has long racked north-eastern India." -Amitav Ghosh, via Twitter "A new voice in the burgeoning oeuvre of anglophone fiction from northeast India." -World Literature Today At a New Delhi conference, an Assamese writer is interrogated on why he writes about magical folktales instead of the insurgencies. A mother splashes around in the village lake to mask the lovemaking sounds of her son with another man. A newly-arrived graduate student in Minnesota navigates living arrangements with his white roommate, Mike, and Mike's Indian girlfriend. In agile and frank prose, The Way You Want to Be Loved tells the stories of queer, displaced lives from India's Northeast, an underrepresented region in English fiction. A hybrid cast of characters represents the common people in these thirteen stories, whether...
Request Code : ZLIB.IO18285487
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Year:
2024
Language:
English
ISBN 13:
9781958652091
ISBN:
9781958652084, 9781958652091

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