Notes of a Mediocre Man

By Bipin Aurora

Two brothers come to school and do nothing but tell stories. A young woman works at the Indian Consulate in a major American city. A man goes to a singles dance. An unnamed narrator offers his “notes” on modern-day America. An old Jewish man in a nursing home tells the tale of his daughter. A retired man in India tries to collect his pension. A woman tells the story of her husband's death in partition India. A man goes from interview to interview, hoping for employment. Some stories are fable-like, others more realistic. However, all stories deal, in one way or another, with small, “mediocre” people -- people trying to fit into a world of bigness, applause, success.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Guernica
• Release date: Apr 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9781771831420

Bipin Aurora

Born in Delhi, India, Bipin Aurora came to the United States when he was nine. He has worked at numerous part-time jobs – cashier, stock boy, waiter, salesman – and then, more “professionally,” as an economist, an energy analyst, and a systems analyst. His fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, Michigan Quarterly Review, Southwest Review, Nimrod International Journal, Witness, The Chattahoochee Review, Western Humanities Review, New Orleans Review, Confrontation, Grain, and other literary publications. Bipin currently makes his home in Oakland.