These four stories, related but distinct, form a kind of emotional and cultural fugue, one that glances back from different vantage points to recurring melodies of modern cultural and intellectual experience.

Publication Date: March 16, 2022
Publisher: Elboro Press
ISBN: 978-1-7379274-0-2
Perfect Bound Paperback, 102 pages
Dimensions: 5” x 8”
Retail Price: $12.99

From Bombay to Berlin, Cambridge and Harvard to Wall Street, the elusive qualities of contemporary historical consciousness is the scent that Bherwani’s characters try to isolate and name. As Robert Morgan notes in his foreword: “Bherwani’s fiction is global in the best sense, taking place across continents, across cultures, decades, across strata of wealth, employment, and education … These stories are both a record of the larger shifts of history and the wrenching, intimate unfoldings of particular lives.”

Bhisham Bherwani is the author of the poetry books The Second Night of the Spirit, The Circling Canopy, and Life in Peacetime. He is the co-editor of The Shrine Whose Shape I Am: The Collected Poetry of Samuel Menashe and was the guest editor of the Atlanta Review anthology of modern and contemporary anglophone Indian poetry. His work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The American Reader, Commonweal, The Paris Review, Pleiades, Plume, and The Yale Review. He is the founder and editor of Audubon Terrace Press, an independent publisher of exceptional but overlooked poetry and related literature. Bherwani was born in Bombay, India, educated at Cornell University and New York University. He lives in New York.