Family Matters - Sudha Balagopal
Product Details:
Paperback : 150 Pages
ISBN : 9781951631772
Cover design: Gwen Grafft
About the Book:
In Family Matters, Sudha Balagopal weaves a vivid tapestry of lives caught between the pull of the past and the uncertainty of the future, opening a window to the inner workings of families both within India and the diaspora. From the humid streets of India to the sun-drenched sprawl of the American Southwest, these stories explore the quiet tremors of domestic life, and the cultural and economic issues that shape it.
Juxtaposing sorrow with beauty, Balagopal captures the needs of her characters -- their yearnings for autonomy, their struggles with displacement, ingrained patriarchy, and family expectations, and the small, defiant acts that sustain them all.
“An absolute gem of a collection. I’m not even going to try to avoid sounding cliché with the usual blurb-word suspects, because they are all true: this collection is breathtaking, sublime, and the writing is beautifully, hauntingly taut and precise. In Balagopal‘s hands, the smallest details carry immeasurable truths.”
-- Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
About the Author:
Sudha Balagopal’s fiction straddles continents and cultures, blending thoughts and ideas from the east the west. She is the author of two novellas-in-flash, Things I Can’t Tell Amma and Nose Ornaments, a novel, A New Dawn, and two short story collections. Nominated for several awards, her work has appeared in Best Microfiction and Best Small Fictions. When she’s not writing, she teaches yoga.
Find her at: sudhabalagopal.com.