Glass/Fire
(By Mandira Pattnaik)
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—Shome Dasgupta, author of Atchafalaya Darling
“Against a backdrop of insistent rain and tide, Pattnaik weaves the lives of three daughters after the family reverse migrates from New Jersey to their ancestral house, Eddy Villa, in a small town near the coast. Pattnaik skillfully immerses the reader in the daughters’ formidable struggles and incremental triumphs over years. What a wonderful experience to walk beside these characters as they forge lives of meaning and purpose. The novella is beautifully bookended with images of glass in all its states.”
—Patricia Q. Bidar, author of Wild Plums and Pardon Me for Moonwalking
“Lush, vivid, pregnant with metaphors—Mandira Patnaik’s novella-in-flash, Glass/Fire, reads like captured sparkling images of three intertwined female lives, light as a feather, yet tracing a rarely-told and weighty flight-arc of reverse migration. Its punctum is that minutely-observed moment of exquisite tension, that throwaway detail unlocking an expanse of yearning. Boundaries, as in the stroke dividing glass and fire, act as a threshold to becoming. Enter the wider natural world like a monsoon, these miniature stories that necklace your heart and break it in such tender ways. This novella-in-flash sears itself into your consciousness like a ballad on fire.”
— Elaine Chiew, author of The Light Between Us and The Heartsick Diaspora”
