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My Mother's Lover and Other Stories
- Publisher : Bloomsbury Prime (16 December 2019)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 252 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9389165636
- ISBN-13 : 978-9389165630
- Item Weight : 280 g
- Dimensions : 20.3 x 25.4 x 4.7 cm
- Country of Origin : British Indian Ocean Territory
Sumana Roy’s book How I Became a Tree, published in 2017, was shortlisted for the Sahitya Academy Award (Non-fiction) for the year 2019. Her novel Missing was published in 2018 and poetry collection Out of Syllabus in March 2019. My Mother’s Lover and Other Stories, a collection of fourteen stories, is her fourth published work.
The blurb of the book describes this collection as stories about people suffering from curious ailments.
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;
a singer with a mad harmonium; and two old lovers who are on a secret holiday until one of them finds out….
a singer with a mad harmonium; and two old lovers who are on a secret holiday until one of them finds out….
