Fiction. South Asian Studies. It is a tense autumn the year Mayura comes away from her husband, saying she will never return to the uncouth, lustful monster. Everyone in the family is affected by her arrival. A sense of collective guilt emasculates the men even as they lecture her on the moral duty of returning to her wedded husband. A sense of outrage mingled with secret sorrow overcomes the women. No one knows what to make of Mayura. Meanwhile she behaves as though nothing and nobody can touch her. Using a deceptively simple and intimate style, Parameswaran explores the subtleties of love, marriage, sex, and family life in a changing South Indian environment.

Author City: Winnipeg, MB CAN

Uma Parameswaran was born in India and lives in Canada. Her publications include the award-winning What Was Always Hers (short stories), The Sweet Smell of Mother's Milk-Wet Bodice (novella), Mangoes on the Maple Tree (novel), A CYCLE OF THE MOON (novel), Sisters at the Well (poems), and Riding High with Krishna and a Baseball Bat & Other Stories. She has also published a play, Rootless But Green Are the Boulevard Trees.

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