X Does Not Mark My Spot

A lively collection of stories, essays, and poems by writers of South Asian descent living in North America.‘Call Me Confused, Please’ requests one of the stories in this insightful and engaging collection from women of South Asian origin living in the United States and Canada. ‘Made in the USA?’ wonders another.Through poems, short stories and scholarly pieces, writers who are in their twenties, thirties and forties share what it is to live and grow up in a country that is your home and yet alien to you. They touch upon issues of culture, belonging, romance, body, race, ethnicity and the notion of ‘home’. Moving beyond the idea of ABCDs (America-Born Confused Desi) and the ‘identity crisis’, the writers grapple with the richness of their diverse inheritances to produce a more nuanced understanding of the self.“Diverse voices challenge social binaries—of race, sexuality, nationality—to showcase many-facets of brown-ness.” Bandana Purkayastha, University of Connecticut