Indian-American-French novelist and kathak dance aficionada. 8220;FAINT PROMISE OF RAIN is a gorgeous book, a story that is at once spare and lush, wrenching and restoring. The characters are so fully realized, so keenly nuanced, that they linger with you long after the last page, like the sweet smell of a recent storm. Bret Anthony Johnston, Director of Creative Writing, Harvard University, and author of Remember Me Like This.

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An important emerging voice in the Literature of the Americas. Cuba and the Embattled Book Panel. COOPER, editor, Cubanabooks Press; professor, Spanish and Multicultural and Gender Studies, California State University, Chico.

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Writer, Editor, Teacher. To see some of the independent bookstores where readers have found or ordered Magpies. Check out the Publications Page. My third short story collection,. MAGPIES, published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. Received the Gold Medal for General Fiction in the Florida Book Awards. Current Voices In Literature Program, 2013-14.

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