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Modern India and its people spilling over its borders into
contemporary life in America form the backdrop of these
stories.
In one story is Muruga, an illiterate billboard painter, with
a lascivious eye on his billboard creation, at odds with the
shameless gawkers at his half clad sultry siren. In
another is irrepressible Naresh whose love for Pushpa
harks back to a not so innocent time of lurid teenage
fantasy and all the delicate implications that make it hard
for him to confess his love to her. And then in a Barbie
Doll assembly factory in India, eight-year-old Parvati
yearns for a shoe from a Barbie Doll collection.
As the characters are jostled between the pull of both
cultures, their experiences uncover the myriad
contradictions and commonalities deeply embedded in
looking at things with an Indian eye while adapting to
western mores and thought. Taken together, these
stories form a distinct palette of cultural vignettes that
inform the reader of the nature of the Indo-American
experience.
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