TY - BOOK AU - Roy, Sumana TI - My mother's lover and other stories SN - 9789389165630 U1 - 823.92 PY - 2020/// CY - New Delhi PB - Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt. Ltd KW - Short stories - Indic - English KW - English Literature KW - Fiction N1 - Table of Contents 1 Blind Water 2 My Mother's Head 3 Untouchability 4 The New Provincials 5 My Mother's Lover 6 The Mountain Disease 7 The Seventh Day 8 Literature and Other Ailments 9 Sleep 10 'How Are You?' 11 Close Reading 12 On the Brink 13 'I'm Not Sure' 14 Beside the Madman's House N2 - My Mother's Lover and Other Stories is a collection of fourteen stories about people who suffer from curious ailments: of a poet whose writing is seen to be an ailment by her family; an insomniac's experience with sleep therapy; a woman's obsession with getting rid of plastic; a woman in Darjeeling desperate for a drop of water; a student fixated on reading a love poem as the failed relationship of her parents; a young couple trapped in a student's hostel during the 1971 war; a Nepali student passionate about proving that Nepalis are not stupid; a mother who can no longer differentiate between her heart and her head; a young woman on the verge of suicide; a girl who's hidden her teeth in a palace garden; a girl who treats literature like astrology; a young lecturer who seeks fame but can't foresee how it'll destroy his life. https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/my-mothers-lover-and-other-stories-9789389165630 ER -