Roy, Sumana <br/><br/>
My mother’s lover: and other stories 

 - New Delhi:   Bloomsbury India,  2019. 
 - 325p.;  pbk;  20cm. 
<br/><br/> My Mother's Lover and Other Stories is a collection of fourteen stories about people who suffer from curious ailments: of a poet whose writing is seen to be an ailment by her family; an insomniac's experience with sleep therapy; a woman's obsession with getting rid of plastic; a woman in Darjeeling desperate for a drop of water; a student fixated on reading a love poem as the failed relationship of her parents; a young couple trapped in a student's hostel during the 1971 war; a Nepali student passionate about proving that Nepalis are not stupid; a mother who can no longer differentiate between her heart and her head; a young woman on the verge of suicide; a girl who's hidden her teeth in a palace garden; a girl who treats literature like astrology; a young lecturer who seeks fame but can't foresee how it'll destroy his life;<br/>a singer with a mad harmonium; and two old lovers who are on a secret holiday until one of them finds out….<br/><br/>https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/my-mothers-lover-and-other-stories-9789389165647/ 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789389165630 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Short stories<br/>Literature<br/>Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>823.92  / ROY