Sugar, smoke, song : a novel

Author

Reema Rajbanshi

Call Number

• FICTION RAJB (CEN)

Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

Pasadena, CA : Red Hen Press, [2020]

Physical Description

213 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

"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"--Provided by publisher.

Contents

• Ruins
• EX blues : a dance manual for heartbreak
• Ode on an Asian dog
• Swan Lake tango
• Stars of Bollywood House
• Carnival
• Mufaro's beautiful daughter
• Sugar, smoke, song
• One tiny thing.