A small sacrifice for enormous happiness : stories / Jai Chakrabarti.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525658948
- ISBN: 0525658947
- Physical Description: pages cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso. |
Summary, etc.: | "A globe-trotting short story collection from the Jewish Book Award-winning author of A Play for the End of the World"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Genre: | Short stories. |
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- 6 of 6 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Babcock Library - Ashford.
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- 0 current holds with 6 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Babcock Library - Ashford | F Cha (Text) | 33110150612644 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness : Stories
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A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness : Stories
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * " As impeccable as [the] title story is, every entry astonishes" ( The New York Times ), from the National Jewish Book Award-winning author of A Play for the End of the World "Whether in Brooklyn, Kolkata, upstate New York or elsewhere, these characters captured my heart and endure in my memory like loved ones." --Mia Alvar, author of In the Country In the fifteen masterful stories that make up this collection, Jai Chakrabarti crosses continents and cultures to explore what it means to cultivate a family today, across borders, religions, and race. In the title story, a closeted gay man in 1980s Kolkata seeks to have a child with his lover's wife. An Indian widow, engaged to a Jewish man, struggles to balance her cultural identity with the rituals and traditions of her newfound family. An American musician travels to see his guru for the final time--and makes a promise he cannot keep. A young woman from an Indian village arrives in Brooklyn to care for the toddler of a biracial couple. And a mystical agent is sent by a mother to solve her son's domestic problems. Throughout, the characters' most vulnerable desires shape life-altering decisions as they seek to balance their needs against those of the people they hold closest. The stories in A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness capture men and women struggling with transformation and familial bonds; they traverse the intersections of countries and cultures to illuminate what it means to love in uncertain times; and they showcase the skill of a storyteller who dazzles with the breadth of his vision.