{"product_id":"the-bird-catcher-and-other-stories-paperback","title":"The Bird Catcher and Other Stories - Paperback","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\u003eFayeza Hasanat\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in Bangladesh and the United States, the eight stories in \u003cem\u003eThe Bird Catcher \u003c\/em\u003eaddress gender expectations, familial love, and questions of identity and belonging.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In \"The Anomalous Wife,\" when Nirjhara decides she wants to walk into the ocean, her husband of thirty years is confused: she has the perfect life, he insists, the life of a dutiful housewife and mother who wants for nothing in her adopted country. The staff at the psychiatric facility can't even pronounce Nirjhara's name, let alone understand her mordant humor and her use of wide-ranging literary references (from Rabindranath Tagore to Sylvia Plath to \u003cem\u003eThe Ancient Mariner\u003c\/em\u003e) to describe her despair.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The other stories are equally resonant and thought-provoking. A college professor has to contend with a student who \"laughed every time I struggled on a word that didn't want to come out of my forked tongue: one part third world, one part hyphenated American.\" A young woman enjoys a loving but complicated relationship with her mother-in-law, a Bangladeshi immigrant who is both ebullient and opinionated, charming and exasperating. In the title story, drawing on fairy tale motifs, string theory, Sufi philosphy, and other traditions, a bird and a recluse argue over the nature of time and the meaning of freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Bird Catcher\u003c\/em\u003e offers wide-ranging variations on the theme of diasporic identity, intriguing glimpses into suppressed, fragmented, and resilient lives, and a meditation on the power and limitations of language. As Nirjhara explains in \"The Anomalous Wife,\" \"Life is all about right word choices, right verbs, and right prepositions. If you walk by the ocean, you are a lover of life. If you walk into it out of your love for the ocean, you are kept here as a prisoner until you learn the correct use of prepositions.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 166\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.38 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 27, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47249119707385,"sku":"9781937543754","price":25.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/RHdsR3Vka2NES04rL2tPc0JJWlZSQT09.webp?v=1768641536","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-bird-catcher-and-other-stories-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}