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Women who misbehave : short stories
- Title
- Women who misbehave : short stories / Sayantani DasGupta.
- Author
- DasGupta, Sayantani
- Publication
- Haryana, India : Penguin, 2021.
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- Description
- xiii, 191 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
- Summary
- Women Who Misbehave, much like the women within its pages, contains multitudes and contradictions-it is imaginative and real, unsettling and heartening, funny and poignant, dark and brimming with light. At a party to celebrate her friend's wedding anniversary, a young woman spills a dangerous secret. A group of girls mourns the loss of their strange, mysterious neighbour. A dutiful daughter seeks to impress her father even as she escapes his reach. A wife weighs the odds of staying in her marriage when both her reality and the alternative are equally frightening. An aunt comes to terms with an impulsive mistake committed decades ago. In this wildly original and hauntingly subversive collection of short stories, Sayantani Dasgupta brings to life unforgettable women and their quest for agency. They are violent and nurturing, sacred and profane. They are friends, lovers, wives, sisters and mothers. Unapologetic and real, they embrace the entire range of the human experience, from the sweetest of loves and sacrifices to the most horrific of crimes.
- Subject
- Contents
- Author's Note: Why I wrote Women Who Misbehave -- The party -- A hard kind of love -- The reader -- Miss Josephine -- Shaaji and Satnam -- If only somewhere -- The waitress -- Another life -- Sisters -- Knots -- Acknowledgements.
- ISBN
- 0670094986
- 9780670094981
- LCCN
- 2020331376
- OCLC
- on1237398480
- 1237398480
- SCSB-14393954
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries