{"product_id":"9781889330969","title":"Where The Long Grass Bends: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Fierce and bold, these beautiful stories provide a highly kinetic exploration of sameness and difference in terms of ethnic and racial origin. Through a romp of language—vital, outrageous, unpredictable—the fireworks of Neela Vaswani’s original genius cast shadows and illumine psyches that conventional monovisions never perceive. The stories of \u003ci\u003eWhere the Long Grass Bends \u003c\/i\u003eare for readers willing to view the shape-shifting of both reality and literary form. Vaswani’s characters embrace their fates through such rigorous birthing that what has been internal finally contains and defines them.\"—Sena Jeter Naslund\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If it is true, as one of Vaswani’s characters claims, that a musical movement is the equivalent of a sentence, then the stories in \u003ci\u003eWhere the Long Grass Bends \u003c\/i\u003ecomprise an uncanny and beautiful symphony. This is a luminous collection, where each fiction evolves its own mythology. I want to live in the world of these stories just as I am afraid of this beautiful and often dark world. Neela Vaswani’s \u003ci\u003eWhere the Long Grass Bends \u003c\/i\u003eis lovely, strange, lyrical, full of true mystery.\"—Victoria Redel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhere the Long Grass Bends\u003c\/i\u003e is a delight of invention and language. In whirling, catch-me-if-you-can prose, Vaswani tells stories that subvert conventional narrative by employing Indian lore, Gaelic fable, and historical legend. Spare, fierce, and unpredictable, this debut collection is boundless, even boundary-less, because Vaswani has, as David Garnett said of Virginia Woolf, a mind that sticks to nothing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNeela Vaswani\u003c\/b\u003e lives in New York. Her short stories have appeared in numerous journals, including \u003ci\u003ePrairie Schooner, American Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGlobal City Review\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1999, she was awarded the Italo Calvino Prize. She is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Maryland, and teaches in the Master of Fine Arts in Writing program at Spalding University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sarabande Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060850409712,"sku":"9781889330969","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781889330969_p0.jpg?v=1763607695","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781889330969","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}