Short stories featuring American women, their families and lives in India and South East Asia. The closer they are to Asia the more uncertain become their relationships with people and places, the more vivid are the descriptions and the more you want to know how they will end up.
We went round the back of the mosque, past the back of the old Muslim tailors, to the main street of the bazaar, where Vivian browsed through the stalls, examining porcelain doorknobs arranged by size in cardboard cartons, allowing perfumes to be brought out and opened for her, and finally stopping at a stall that sold fruit and nuts, where she bought a kilo of yellow longans.
