About the Book: My Mothers Lover and Other Stories
My Mothers 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 insomniacs experience with sleep therapy; a womans
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 students hostel during
the 1971 war; a Nepali student passionate about proving that Nepalis are not
stupid; a mother