Download or read book Sri Anthology IV Short Fiction and Nonfiction written by A to Z and published by SRI BOOKS, an imprint of the Simplicity Research Institute. This book was released on 2022-01-24 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fourth collection of short stories, we have more real-life tales for you, some fiction too, and some that straddle the two! Ms Delight — Brooke Chew — 1 Ah Moi — H Gill — 8 The Large Medium — May Han Thong — 18 Black Forest — Jo Lim — 31 Cosmic Song — Yen-Kheng Lim — 36 Pandemic — Jan Thong — 56 To Be, Or Not To Be — Rajesh R Parwani — 62 A Marriage Tale — Anya Seth — 72 Fading Years — Jan Thong — 78 I Remember — Rajesh R Parwani — 83
Download or read book Sri Anthology 3 Short Fiction and Nonfiction written by A 2 Z and published by SRI BOOKS, an imprint of the Simplicity Research Institute. This book was released on 2021-02-21 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this third collection of short stories we have both fiction and nonfiction! Can you guess which is which? A Letter to Mr. Nobody — Jo Lim — 1 Still Wanderings — Manali Pattnaik — 5 Voting for Earth — May Han Thong — 17 Beyond the Mountain — Lingzhi Li — 29 Shrey’s Corner — Yen-Kheng Lim— 34 Heroes in Plain Sight — Neha G — 52 Sisterhood — Elena M — 60 Aliens Cleansing — Jan Thong — 65 Jalan Kayu Primary School — Rajesh R Parwani — 70 The Glory of Death — May Han Thong — 78 High Fever — Rajesh R Parwani — 88
Download or read book Sri Anthology Volume V Short Fiction and Nonfiction written by A to Z and published by Simplicity Research Institute. This book was released on 2023-03-18 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fifth collection of short stories we have more tales for you: some true, some made up, and some in the grey zone! Cry — Thong May Han — 1 About Time — Rajesh R Parwani — 10 The Way We Once Were — Anya Seth — 20 The Folk — Jay Yap — 28 A Place to be Quiet — Jo Lim — 38 39 Michan Road — Renée Abrahams — 43 Power Play — Thong Kim Fook — 48 Subterfuge in Switzerland — Thong May Han — 59 The Five Stages of Unclehood in Singapore — Rajesh R Parwani — 70
Download or read book Sri Anthology VI written by Jo LIm and published by Simplicity Research Institute. This book was released on 2024-02-10 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome, dear reader, to the sixth volume of this vibrant anthology series, where fact and fiction interlock in a dance of storytelling! As with the volume before, we offer you a tapestry woven from diverse threads, a kaleidoscope of experiences to ignite your imagination and pique your curiosity. Within these pages, you'll find yourself transported to realms both familiar and fantastical. You'll meet characters who will challenge your perspectives and stay with you long after the final line. Whether you crave the raw honesty of personal narrative or the immersive escapism of fiction, this anthology caters to your every literary desire. This year we also have some experimental results from generative AI: most of this preface, the two haikus and one story in this volume, were generated by AI.
Download or read book Sri Anthology written by A to Z and published by SRI Books, an imprint of the Simplicity Research Institute. This book was released on 2020-02-16 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second collection of short nonfiction, we have a dozen real-life tales for you: stories of growing up, love, loss, helplessness, joy, adventure, taking charge, and … letting go …
Download or read book Marriage of a Thousand Lies written by SJ Sindu and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “What a gorgeous, heartbreaking novel.”—Roxane Gay A necessary and exciting addition to both the Sri Lankan-American and LGBTQ canons, SJ Sindu's debut novel offers a moving and sharply rendered exploration of friendship, family, love, and loss. Lucky and her husband, Krishna, are gay. They present an illusion of marital bliss to their conservative Sri Lankan–American families, while each dates on the side. It’s not ideal, but for Lucky, it seems to be working. She goes out dancing, she drinks a bit, she makes ends meet by doing digital art on commission. But when Lucky’s grandmother has a nasty fall, Lucky returns to her childhood home and unexpectedly reconnects with her former best friend and first lover, Nisha, who is preparing for her own arranged wedding with a man she’s never met. As the connection between the two women is rekindled, Lucky tries to save Nisha from entering a marriage based on a lie. But does Nisha really want to be saved? And after a decade’s worth of lying, can Lucky break free of her own circumstances and build a new life? Is she willing to walk away from all that she values about her parents and community to live in a new truth? As Lucky—an outsider no matter what choices she makes—is pushed to the breaking point, Marriage of a Thousand Lies offers a vivid exploration of a life lived at a complex intersection of race, sexuality, and nationality. The result is a profoundly American debut novel shot through with humor and loss, a story of love, family, and the truths that define us all.
Download or read book The Boat People written by Sharon Bala and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globe and Mail bestseller, The Boat People is an extraordinary novel about a group of refugees who survive a perilous ocean voyage only to face the threat of deportation amid accusations of terrorism When a rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and five hundred fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody civil war reaches Vancouver's shores, the young father thinks he and his six-year-old son can finally start a new life. Instead, the group is thrown into a detention processing center, with government officials and news headlines speculating that among the "boat people" are members of a separatist militant organization responsible for countless suicide attacks—and that these terrorists now pose a threat to Canada's national security. As the refugees become subject to heavy interrogation, Mahindan begins to fear that a desperate act taken in Sri Lanka to fund their escape may now jeopardize his and his son's chance for asylum. Told through the alternating perspectives of Mahindan; his lawyer, Priya, a second-generation Sri Lankan Canadian who reluctantly represents the refugees; and Grace, a third-generation Japanese Canadian adjudicator who must decide Mahindan's fate as evidence mounts against him, The Boat People is a spellbinding and timely novel that provokes a deeply compassionate lens through which to view the current refugee crisis.
Download or read book Blue Skinned Gods written by SJ Sindu and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of Marriage of a Thousand Lies comes a brilliantly written, globe-spanning novel about identity, faith, family, and sexuality. In Tamil Nadu, India, a boy is born with blue skin. His father sets up an ashram, and the family makes a living off of the pilgrims who seek the child’s blessings and miracles, believing young Kalki to be the tenth human incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu. In Kalki’s tenth year, he is confronted with three trials that will test his power and prove his divine status and, his father tells him, spread his fame worldwide. While he seems to pass them, Kalki begins to question his divinity. Over the next decade, his family unravels, and every relationship he relied on—father, mother, aunt, uncle, cousin—starts falling apart. Traveling from India to the underground rock scene of New York City, Blue-Skinned Gods explores ethnic, gender, and sexual identities, and spans continents and faiths, in an expansive and heartfelt look at the need for belief in our globally interconnected world.
Download or read book International Who s Who in Poetry 2004 written by Europa Publications and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides up-to-date profiles on the careers of leading and emerging poets.
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Download or read book Me My Hair and I written by Elizabeth Benedict and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] splendid collection . . . By turns wry, tender, pointed, and laugh-out-loud funny.” —Publishers Weekly “Untangles the many truths about hair, and the lives we lead underneath it.” —Pamela Druckerman, author of Bringing Up Bébé Ask a woman about her hair, and she just might tell you the story of her life. Ask a whole bunch of women about their hair, and you could get a history of the world. Surprising, insightful, frequently funny, and always forthright, the essays in Me, My Hair, and I are reflections and revelations about every aspect of women’s lives from family, race, religion, and motherhood to culture, health, politics, and sexuality. They take place in African American kitchens, at Hindu Bengali weddings, and inside Hasidic Jewish homes. The conversation is intimate and global at once. Layered into these reminiscences are tributes to influences throughout history: Jackie Kennedy, Lena Horne, Farrah Fawcett, the Grateful Dead, and Botticelli’s Venus. The long and the short of it is that our hair is our glory—and our nemesis, our history, our self-esteem, our joy, our mortality. Every woman knows that many things in life matter more than hair, but few bring as much pleasure as a really great hairdo.
Download or read book Longman Anthology of World Literature by Women 1875 1975 written by Marian Arkin and published by New York : Longman. This book was released on 1989 with total page 1334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Gaze written by Elif Shafak and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful and compelling novel, Elif Shafak's The Gaze considers the damage which can be inflicted by our simple desire to look at others "I didn't say anything. I didn't return his smiles. I looked at him in the wide mirror in front of where I was sitting. He grew uncomfortable and avoided my eyes. I hate those who think fat people are stupid.' An obese woman and her lover, a dwarf, are sick of being stared at wherever they go, and so decide to reverse roles. The man goes out wearing make up and the woman draws a moustache on her face. But while the woman wants to hide away from the world, the man meets the stares from passers-by head on, compiling his 'Dictionary of Gazes' to explore the boundaries between appearance and reality. Intertwined with the story of a bizarre freak-show organised in Istanbul in the 1880s, The Gaze considers the damage which can be inflicted by our simple desire to look at others. "Beautifully evoked" - The Times "Original and Compelling" - TLS "Plays with ideas of beauty and ugliness like they're Rubik's cubes" - Helen Oyeyemi "Entertaining and affecting" - Publishers' Weekly Elif Shafak is the acclaimed author of The Bastard of Istanbul and The Forty Rules of Love and is the most widely read female novelist in Turkey. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. She is a contributor for The Telegraph, Guardian and the New York Times and her TED talk on the politics of fiction has received 500 000 viewers since July 2010. She is married with two children and divides her time between Istanbul and London.
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Download or read book Everyday People written by Jennifer Baker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A delight and highly recommended.” —Booklist “Showcases the truth and fullness of people of color.” —Book Riot In the tradition of Best American Short Stories comes Everyday People: The Color of Life, a dazzling collection of contemporary short fiction. Everyday People is a thoughtfully curated anthology of short stories that presents new and renowned work by established and emerging writers of color. It illustrates the dynamics of character and culture that reflect familial strife, political conflict, and personal turmoil through an array of stories that reveal the depth of the human experience. Representing a wide range of styles, themes, and perspectives, these selected stories depict moments that linger—crossroads to be navigated, relationships, epiphanies, and times of doubt, loss, and discovery. A celebration of writing and expression, Everyday People brings to light the rich tapestry that binds us all. The contributors are an eclectic mix of award-winning and critically lauded writers, including Mia Alvar, Carleigh Baker, Nana Brew-Hammond, Glendaliz Camacho, Alexander Chee, Mitchell S. Jackson, Yiyun Li, Allison Mills, Courttia Newland, Denne Michele Norris, Jason Reynolds, Nelly Rosario, Hasanthika Sirisena, and Brandon Taylor. Some of the proceeds from the sale of Everyday People will benefit the Rhode Island Writers Colony, a nonprofit organization founded by the late Brook Stephenson that provides space for speculation, production, and experimentation by writers of color.
Download or read book The DPhotographer written by Emmanuel Guibert and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-05-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1986, Afghanistan was torn apart by a war with the Soviet Union. This graphic novel/photo-journal is a record of one reporter’s arduous and dangerous journey through Afghanistan, accompanying the Doctors Without Borders. Didier Lefevre’s photography, paired with the art of Emmanuel Guibert, tells the powerful story of a mission undertaken by men and women dedicated to mending the wounds of war. Emmanuel Guibert’s most recent book for First Second was the critically acclaimed Alan’s War, the memoir of a WWII G.I. His close friendship with Didier Lefevre inspired him to combine art and photography to create this momentous book.
