The Collected Short Stories of Bharati Mukherjee

Pioneering Indian American writer Bharati Mukherjee is best known for her novel, Jasmine, and her breakthrough collection, The Middleman and Other Stories, which won the 1988 National Book Critics Circle Award. Her writing is distinguished as much by its narrative style and shifting points of view as it is by Mukherjees piercing emotional observations on the immigrant experience and her depiction of racism, nostalgia, and displacement. The Collected Short Stories of Bharati Mukherjee is the first volume to feature the authors complete short fictionall 35 stories. Leading Mukherjee scholar Ruth Maxey edits the collection, unearthing seven unknown stories: five in Mukherjees unpublished 1963 Iowa Writers Workshop M.F.A. thesis, The Shattered Mirror, and two tales from 2008. Arranged chronologically, this essential collection brings many of Mukherjees stories back into print, from the semi-autobiographical story, Hindus, in her 1985 debut collection, Darkness, to her late stories, published from 1997-2012, as well as her classic, The Management of Grief. Maxey contextualizes Mukherjees short fiction and the provocative, often prescient political questions it raises about migration, nationhood, class, and history. The Collected Short Stories of Bharati Mukherjee features a Forward by prominent literary studies scholar Nalini Iyer and Afterword by critically acclaimed writer Lysley Tenorio, one of Mukherjees former students. It is an essential volume for readers both familiar with Mukherjees work and new to her groundbreaking fiction.