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Shruti Swamy and I exchanged emails to discuss how motherhood became a dominant theme in A House Is a Body and why space—physical, emotional, intellectual, or liminal—features so frequently, especially for mothers who are also women of color. A House is a Body: Stories Shruti Swamy. Algonquin, $ (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. OTHER BOOKS. The Archer; Buy this book Swamy writes with a cool precision. In Shruti Swamy's debut story collection, A House is a Body, a thread of internal change weaves throughout the twelve stories. Characters accept and face the consequences of unavoidable circumstances in life, and it's this acceptance that gives these stories their meaning. The book's predominant, resurfacing theme is that of motherhood.
A HOUSE IS A BODY. by Shruti Swamy ‧RELEASE DATE: Aug. 11, Fear of loneliness, abandonment, and death propel these 12 stories set in the U.S. and India. In this debut collection, time is temperamental. Reality bleeds into dreams, and these dreams later shape reality. A House is a Body. The following is excerpted from Shruti Swamy's story collection, A House is a Body. Swamy's work has appeared in The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. She was Vassar College's 50th W.K. Rose Fellow, and has been awarded residencies at the Millay Colony for the Arts, Blue Mountain Center, and Hedgebrook. A House Is a Body by Shruti Swamy is a remarkable collection of short stories. Invasive with its characters, unflinching in its portrayals of the modern Indian woman and her experiences. Some of my favorite stories combined India's mythic roots with modern problems, and others told devastating tales of secrecy and loss.
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