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Bodies in Motion: Stories
Bodies in Motion: Stories
Bodies in Motion: Stories
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Bodies in Motion: Stories

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Like the sweet heat of a palate-pleasing curry or the brilliant radiance of bougainvillea, the short stories in Mary Anne Mohanraj's Bodies in Motion will delight the senses and sensibilities. Her tales follow two generations of two families living on the cusp of disparate worlds, America and Sri Lanka -- their lives and ties shaped, strengthened, devastated, and altered by the emigrant-immigrant ebb and flow. Through stunning, effervescent prose, intimate moments are beautifully distilled, revealing the tug-of-war between generations and gender in stories sensual and honest, chronicling love, ambition, and the spiritual and sexual quests of mothers and daughters, fathers and sons.

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Release dateOct 13, 2009
ISBN9780061739514
Bodies in Motion: Stories

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    I cannot speak for how accurately this book depicts Sri Lankan culture, but I can say that I could barely put it down. The book is a series of vignettes from a couple of Tamil families. It depicts the relationships between parents and children, aunts and nieces, and romantic and sexual partners. There is a lot of concern with how women support each other and make compromises to sustain both their own sexuality and their traditional culture. You might consider this somewhere between "chick lit" and "literary fiction."A number of the vignettes have sexual content, but nothing prolonged; it's a passionate book, perhaps even an arousing book in places, but not a masturbatory book. Mohanraj also writes about food, clothing, weather, all of the things of daily life, in dense but brief detail. One gets the impression of a lush, damp mind, full of biodiversity.Highly recommended. Some sexually explicit parts.

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