![]() ![]() For example, in the opening story, “Deception,” Sita is in an arranged marriage to a Bengal tiger. In “Elephants in the Pink City,” Kai Sarma’s traditional parents won’t let him date whom he wishes after he comes out as gay and Susannah, an Indian, is shunned by white and Tamil Brahmin classmates in “The Logic of Someday.” Felicelli typically steeps her tales in metaphors, resulting in audacious approaches to such issues as racism and sexism. Young Hagar of “Everywhere, Signs,” is attending a Pittsburgh school, where, soon after the 9/11 attacks, her fellow students brand her a terrorist-simply because she’s a person of color. Like the narrator, other characters in these poignant stories deal with questions of identity. It’s a decision that impresses neither his father in the States nor his girlfriend Komakal’s parents in Tamil Nadu. In the title tale, an unnamed San Franciscan narrator returns to Chennai, his birthplace, to research the legend of the lost continent of Kumari Kandam. ![]() ![]() In Felicelli ’s ( Sparks Off You, 2012, etc.) short story collection, Tamil-Americans struggle to find themselves in a world that persistently marginalizes them. ![]()
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