A review by nuhafariha
Story-Wallah: Short Fiction from South Asian Writers by Shyam Selvadurai

4.0

This collection is like getting a box of Indian sweets. Some are brightly decorated but taste awful while others, the unadorned and overlooked, linger in the mouth long after. What is particularly admirable is that the collection attempts to address not only the South Asian diaspora post 1965 immigration reform, but also the diaspora born of indentured laborers in the Caribbean and beyond, addressing complicated questions of cultural authenticity and hegemony in the creation of a diasporic desi identity.