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The Tailor's Needle


Lakshmi Raj Sharma - 2009
    Part comedy of manners, part social commentary, love story, mystic narration and thriller, it is a sort of Indian version of Oliver Goldsmith's THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD.

The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: And Other Small Acts of Liberation


Elizabeth Berg - 2008
    What would you do, if you were going to break out and away? Go AWOL from Weight Watchers and spend an entire day eating every single thing you want-and then some? Start a dating service for people over fifty to reclaim the razzle-dazzle in your life-or your marriage? Seek comfort in the face of aging, look for love in the midst of loss, find friendship in the most surprising of places? Imagine that the people in these wonderful stories-who do all of these things and more-are asking you: What would you do, if nobody was looking?

Legend of a Suicide


David Vann - 2008
    It features the story 'Ichthyology', where a young boy watches his father spiral from divorce to suicide.