Her Mother's Ashes: and Other Stories by South Asian Women in Canada and the United States

CONTENTS: Preface; Arun Prabha Mukherjee Introduction; Hema Nair "Why Am I Doing This?"; Bapsi Sidhwa The Spouse and the Preacher; Himani Bannerji On a Cold Day; Previz Walji A Child Departs; Chitra Divakaruni Bad Luck Woman; Arun Prabha Mukherjee A New Reading of "Wasteland"; Nazneen Sheikh American Date; Lalita Gandbhir Free and Equal; Feroza Jussawalla AIDSwallah; Surjeet Kalsey Crossing the Threshold; UMA Parameswaran Freeze Frame; Ramabai Espinet Because I Could Not Stop for Death; Tahira Naqvi Love in an Election Year; Farida Karodia Crossmatch; Meena Alexander No Nation Woman; Yasmin Ladha Circum the Gesture; Vidyut Aklujkar Behind the Headlines; Lakshmi Gill Altered Dreams; Geeta Kothari Her Mother's Ashes; Roshni Rustomji-Kerns A Memory of Names; Contributors