The Way You Want to Be Loved: Short Stories

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$19.00  $17.67
Publisher
Gaudy Boy, LLC
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Pages
256
Dimensions
5.5 X 8.5 X 0.58 inches | 0.72 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781958652084

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About the Author
Aruni Kashyap is the author of the novel The House With a Thousand Stories. Along with editing a collection of stories called How to Tell the Story of an Insurgency, he has also translated two novels from Assamese to English, published by Zubaan Books and Penguin Random House. Recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Faculty Research Grants in the Humanities and Arts Program, Arts Lab Faculty Fellowship, and the Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship for Creative Writing to the University of Edinburgh, his poetry collection, There is No Good Time for Bad News was nominated for the 58th Georgia Author of the Year Awards 2022, a finalist for the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize and Four Way Books Levis Award in Poetry. His short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in Catapult, Bitch Media, The Boston Review, Electric Literature, The Oxford Anthology of Writings from Northeast, The Kenyon Review, The New York Times, The Guardian UK, and others. He also writes in Assamese and is the author of a novel called Noikhon Etia Duroit, and three novellas. He is an Associate Professor of English & Creative Writing and the Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Georgia, Athens.
Reviews

"Literature from India's Northeast...has remained relatively obscure to the wider world until recently...A number of outstanding writers and translators [have dispelled] its obscure position and challeng[ed] the way Indian literature is read globally. One prominent name associated with this dynamic wave of storytelling is Aruni Kashyap." -Split Lip Mag

"These powerful stories shorten the distance between South Asia and America, which are, refreshingly, not positioned as opposite pulls but as companion landscapes where dream, desire, and defiance thrive...Kashyap eschews the predictable narratives and brings us unique takes on leaving home, loving family, and longing for passion. Daring and surprising." -Rigoberto González

"Mixes Chekovian realism with Borgesian magic to create a new and vital literary voice for our times. With wit, intelligence, and humor, Kashyap's stories grapple with the tangled predicament of anyone who has ever felt themselves an outsider: in a new country, in the labyrinth of academia, or within one's own family." -Nathan Oates

"Kashyap precisely embarks on a journey to undo the single-story surrounding his homeland. He makes no effort to play safe by catering to the mainland's expectations from a writer coming from India's Northeast. With the first story itself Kashyap plunges headlong into murky waters without losing sight of his goal-to narrate the tales of displaced individuals desperately negotiating home." -HuffPost

"An exploration of the many complex identities that queer Desis simultaneously embody, slipping with the same ease-or unease-into a mother's arms as into a lover's embrace." -Electric Lit

"This searing collection of emotionally devastating stories that are united by the experience of marginalization is deeply moving and thought provoking." -Shelf Awareness

"Speaks to the struggles of the universal want to be loved. Threaded through these stories is a sense of longing for such acceptance within societies that condemn one for existing as they are-as a queer person in Assam, as an Assamese in India, as an Indian in America. And yet they persist in a defiance to live just as they live, to love as they love." -Cha

"One marvels at Kashyap's technical prowess, the deft chess moves on the storyboard-the flow of the story intact at all times...An acerbic, unusual, transgressive and frequently funny collection that I'm sure will be talked about for years to come." -Open