Excited to announce my debut flash fiction collection, “Morsels of Purple” available soon at Amazon.com.
This is a collection of flash and microfiction stories that represent the mosaic of a woman’s life—girlhood and its impoverishments, womanhood and its heartbreaks, wifehood and its travails, motherhood and its responsibility, childlessness and its curse.
The stories span across cultural, geographical, and religious boundaries and offer glimpses into the lives of women in different situations—a young Muslim girl who doesn’t understand why her mother fasts during Ramadan, another Muslim girl who is treated differently than her brother, a Hindu girl born to a widow, an Indian girl of marriageable age who’s taught the proper wifely behavior by her mother, an immigrant woman who cannot bring a jar of achaar from India to the USA, a childless woman in Ohio who steals another woman’s baby, an American girl who drops out of school to marry her high-school sweetheart, another American woman who outlines steps to deal with an alcoholic husband.