{"product_id":"being-here-stories-hardcover","title":"Being Here: Stories - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eManini Nayar\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"We are all now writing stories. Sometimes in memory, sometimes in air. The wind lifts and passes us in gusts. Our stories scatter over continents, camouflaged histories we cannot share.\"\u003c\/i\u003eIn this radiant collection of stories, readers are introduced to individuals whose existence reveals the \"daily miracle\" of their inner lives. Manini Nayar brings to the forefront immigrant women making their way in the world as mothers, wives, outliers and rebels. She writes about their insistence on autonomy and the absurdity and triumphs of their struggles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese stories loop and double back across time and locales, connecting characters through memory while illumining lives forever recast by an offhand phrase, an act of will, or an unsought encounter. A girl battles with her eccentric neighbor still pining for the British Raj who prefers cats to daughters. A bride's untimely death seems to deny a computer salesman his American Dream. A woman arriving in New York soon after 9\/11 understands how history spills into the future. While readers will meet a wide array of characters, it is Nina with whom they will become most familiar as she appears throughout the collection: first, as a young wife brought to the US by her husband, Siddharth Vellodi; then as an older sister; and later, as a (divorced) mother whose daughter's fateful rebellion remains the mysterious and incandescent center of the collection. In poetic and eloquent prose, \u003ci\u003eBeing Here\u003c\/i\u003e provides a compelling and profound voice to lived experiences, and \"delights with its humor, passion and pathos.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eManini Nayar \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Teaching Professor of English and Women's Studies at Penn State, University Park, PA. Her award-winning stories have been broadcasted by the BBC World Service, and are published in \u003ci\u003eBoston Review, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eShenandoah, The Bellevue Literary Review, London Magazine, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eStand, The Malahat Review, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003e The Alaska Quarterly Review.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.3 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 28, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47252065583353,"sku":"9780813182520","price":19.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Zm5Vd2h1WTZFamM4cDBSWVdNSVFzZz09.webp?v=1768680534","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/being-here-stories-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}