Bonds of Love & Blood

"Poignant, honest, and compelling... Highly recommended."--PACIFIC BOOK REVIEW

Twelve tales of love and travel, arrivals and departures.

At home and abroad, solitary travelers embark on journeys that take them where they never expected to go.

A woman in Istanbul hooks up with a Kurdish rug dealer and learns a lesson about family life.

A visitor to California—the elderly Tanaka—must shape up his daughter before she alienates the bridegroom.

With a marriage at risk, Leslie and her Indian mother-in-law nearly come to blows over a shared kitchen.

Walter, self-conscious about his disfiguring birthmark, finds himself marooned in a Thai beach resort, but for the first time in his life, he is not alone.

The twelve prize-winning stories in BONDS OF LOVE & BLOOD remind us of our universal and contradictory longing for solitude and for connection.