Description
Some of Rupa Maitra’s stories spring from her background in music and medicine, some from her Bengali heritage — and all from a vivid imagination:
- An inquisitive lab assistant, trampled by everyone, finally stands up for himself
- A lonely Wadestown nanny finds solace in the kind actions of one of her charges
- A disgraced doctor leaves medicine and becomes reclusive, taking up painting
- Life unravels for a narcissistic professor
- A child of immigrants explores what resonates when he has to examine his roots
- Faced with the death of a friend, an elderly spinster reveals a long-held secret
- A violinist relives grisly memories while playing for Prokofiev’s Cinderella
- A woman’s sanity is tested as she becomes progressively more sleep-deprived.
