Best Books of 2018 Kirkus Reviews (debut and short fiction categories) Best Books of 2018, Entropy Magazine A Book Club selection for The Wing, Rebel Women\'s Lit and Bookish.com 35 over 35 Debut Fiction Award Finalist for the 2019 PEN American Robert Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection Chaya Bhuvaneswar\'s debut collection maps with great assurance the intricate outer reaches of the human heart.
Winner of the 2017 Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize, White Dancing Elephants marks the emergence of a new and original voice in fiction and explores feminist, queer, religious, and immigrant stories with precision, drama, and compassion..
In seventeen 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.
And fragments of history, from child brickmakers to slaves in Renaissance Portugal, are held up in brief fictions, burnished, made dazzling and unforgettable.
A boy seeks memories of his sister in the legend of a woman who weds death.
A brief but intense affair between two women culminates in regret and betrayal.
Orphans in India get pulled into a strange rescue mission aimed at stripping their mysterious powers.
An artist with schizophrenia tries to survive hatred and indifference in small-town India by turning to the beauty of sculpture and dance. -Kirkus Reviews (starred) A woman grieves a miscarriage, haunted by the Buddha\'s birth. -Lauren Groff, author of Florida Stunning, evocative, electric...an exuberant collection.
What a bold, smart, exciting new voice, well worth listening to; what an elegant story collection to read and savor.
Best Books of 2018 Kirkus Reviews (debut and short fiction categories) Best Books of 2018, Entropy Magazine A Book Club selection for The Wing, Rebel Women\'s Lit and Bookish.com 35 over 35 Debut Fiction Award Finalist for the 2019 PEN American Robert Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection Chaya Bhuvaneswar\'s debut collection maps with great assurance the intricate outer reaches of the human heart
