About the Book: A Night With a Black Spider: Stories
'Since she was valorous, she said she was a man, and since Mahishan was
speaking of love, he was feminine... If she was a combination of feminine and
masculine qualities, why could he too not be a combination of the masculine and
feminine?
Setting the stage with the Asura Mahishans doomed love for the beautiful Devi,
Ambai deftly combines myth and tradition with contemporary situations. In the
title story, the woman who is mother, daughter, solver of all problems for her
family, finds that it is only a black spider on a wall in a deserted