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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Open Season: Stories

Open Season: Stories

Ajmeri, Shaukat

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ISBN10: 1774151553
ISBN13: 9781774151556
Publisher: Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.
Published: Apr 8 2024
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.82
Language: English

In sparkling, clear prose, understated yet unflinching, Open Season probes deep into the fissures of caste, class, religion, and gender in our world. Located mostly in India and Canada, the stories describe a world of global flows where a woman returns to India after her two daughters are killed in a school shooting in the US; in the title story a Muslim young man is lynched in an Indian town on the false charges that his fridge contains beef; Light as a Butterfly draws our attention to the ongoing degradation of the environment; in All Cut Up, set in a suburb of Toronto, seven-year-old Zoya is heroically protected by her mother Zarina from her community's demand that she be circumcised. The stories speak of a world familiar and yet all too elusive, of a gentler, mellower, more hopeful time; they explore the charms and constraints of life in a small town and question assumptions and beliefs and dreams.

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