An Astonishment of Stars

✍ Scribed by Kirti Bhadresa

• Book ID: 115335738
• Publisher: ECW Press
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: en-CA
• Weight: 429 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781778522789

✦ Synopsis

A beautifully written short story collection that charts the lives of racialized women as they navigate their relationships, aspirations, and the burdens of memory and expectations

"Sharply observed and gracefully told, this is a collection shining with all the unexpected delights and defeats that make up a life." -- Anuja Varghese, author of Chrysalis

The wife who uses the name of her white husband in public. The mother who cleans the small-town hospital while her daughter moves to the city to forget their shared past. The well-behaved teen girl who anxiously watches her older sister slip further and further away from their hovering parents. Each of these characters is both familiar and singular, reminding us of women we have been, of our mothers and daughters, neighbors and adversaries.

Kirti Bhadresa is a keen observer of humanity, especially of the BIPOC women whose domestic and professional work is the backbone of late-stage...