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White Dancing Elephants
White Dancing Elephants | Chaya Bhuvaneswar
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WINNER, DZANC BOOKS SHORT STORY COLLECTION PRIZE WINNER, NARRATIVE MAGAZINE "TOP FIVE STORIES OF THE WEEK" FOR 2017 A woman grieves a miscarriage, haunted by the Buddha's birth. An artist with schizophrenia tries to survive hatred and indifference in small-town India by turning to the beauty of sculpture and dance. Orphans in India get pulled into a strange "rescue" mission aimed at stripping their mysterious powers. A brief but intense affair between two women culminates in regret and betrayal. A boy seeks memories of his sister in the legend of a woman who weds death. And fragments of history, from child brickmakers to slaves in Renaissance Portugal, are held up in brief fictions, burnished, made dazzling and unforgettable. In sixteen 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. 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.
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sakeriver
White Dancing Elephants | Chaya Bhuvaneswar
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The stories in this collection are varied in tone and style but are consistently excellent. I find that I‘m thinking a lot about the epigraph, which is from Seamus Heaney‘s poem “Punishment,” a poem about complicity. And I‘m wondering how or whether to see this collection with that frame—many of the stories are about the ways people fail each other, about cruelty or loss or missed opportunity. Lots to think about, for sure.

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sakeriver
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Lupita.Reads
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Stunning short story collection about women of all shapes and forms. Bad women, sick women, good women, queer women! Definitely one of my fave of the year. A perfect mash up of genres & almost impossible to label- this is one to read.

kgriffith I saw your post on Instagram and came over here to stack A Dream Called Home from your profile so you‘d get the litfluence point, but alas! Come back 😊 6y
AnimalRiotPress On the reading list! 6y
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BookNAround
White Dancing Elephants | Chaya Bhuvaneswar
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When you go away for 2 months in the summer, you might come home to this. 💕 (I also came home to rotten, mushy veggies my husband didn‘t eat, cracked tiles in our new kitchen floor, a dead tree limb hanging too high up to safely pull it down, and the quiet of a house without Jazz man but I‘m going to focus on the good. Ie the picture above.)

Beckys_Books I completely understand. I've also been away for a couple months and I don't think my husband can do his own laundry. 6y
Nute I‘m afraid to ask about cracked tiles in the kitchen, but your book mail looks fabulous!😁 6y
Tamra The books will sustain you through the other “stuff.” 😏 6y
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Clwojick
White Dancing Elephants | Chaya Bhuvaneswar
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#NetGalley has changed the way I read in the past three months. I‘ve been mostly ignoring my physical collection of books, and instead searching the newest releases available for request on NetGalley. There‘s something to be said about reading a book while before the majority of the population has read it. I love going into a book with no preconceived opinions, no outsider information, no expectations. This is one I‘ve heard nothing about. ⬇️

Clwojick And that makes me more excited to read it. I feel like my preferences in reading change multiple times a year, and right now... I crave #ARCs of all kinds. Whether it be poetry, children‘s literature, cookbooks, romance or lit fiction.... ARCs are where it‘s at for me right now 6y
JazzFeathers True, eh? I stumbled upon a few awesome books on NetGalley which l had problably never read otherwise 6y
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