Women's Literature from 1960 to the Present - Bharati Mukherjee (Short Story Date 1988)
BHARATI MUKHERJEE (SHORT STORY DATE 1988)
SOURCE: Mukherjee, Bharati. "The Management of Grief." In The Middleman and Other Stories. Canada: Penguin Books, 1988.
Born in India, Mukherjee, who now resides in Canada, writes stories that often reflect on issues significant to people who have migrated from one culture to another. In the following excerpt, Mukherjee captures the tragic consequences of an airline crash on a set of neighbors and friends as they struggle to cope with their loss.
Four days later, I find Kusum squatting on a rock overlooking a bay in Ireland. It isn't a big rock, but it juts sharply out over water. This is as close as we'll ever get to them. June breezes balloon out her sari and unpin her knee-length hair. She has the bewildered look of a sea creature whom the tides have stranded.
It's been one hundred hours since Kusum came stumbling and screaming across my lawn. Waiting...
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