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Bodies in Motion
Bodies in Motion: Stories | Mary Anne Mohanraj
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Like the sweet heat of a palate-pleasing curry or the brilliant radiance of bougainvillea, the short stories in Mary Anne Mohanraj's Bodies in Motion will delight the senses and sensibilities. Her tales follow two generations of two families living on the cusp of disparate worlds, America and Sri Lanka -- their lives and ties shaped, strengthened, devastated, and altered by the emigrant-immigrant ebb and flow. Through stunning, effervescent prose, intimate moments are beautifully distilled, revealing the tug-of-war between generations and gender in stories sensual and honest, chronicling love, ambition, and the spiritual and sexual quests of mothers and daughters, fathers and sons.
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Bodies in Motion: Stories | Mary Anne Mohanraj
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📖 Bodies in Motion
✍️ Fredrik Backman
🎞️ Back to the Future 📺 Better Call Saul
🎤 Oli Brown
🎵 Better Living Through Chemistry by Queens of the Stone Age

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Bodies in Motion: Stories | Mary Anne Mohanraj
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Although it's a series of short stories, it reads very much like a novel, with characters reappearing and different aspects of the same story being slowly uncovered.
The first story takes place in Colombo in 1939, and from here we're following three generations of two Sri Lankan families in both Sri Lanka and the USA, through their studies, arranged marriages, heartaches, secrets, successes and failures. ⬇️

eeclayton We're witnessing the clash of traditionalist and more progressive attitudes, problems in communication, and changing gender roles.
It's incredibly written, thought-provoking and heartbreaking. I loved every word.
4y
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#wondrouswednesday @Eggs
(1) thought-provoking stories from Ceylon
(2) lip balm, I have super chapped lips (I consider coffee a bare essential 😉)
(3) the 1970s for Led Zeppelin concerts! 🤘
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As with any short story collection, some were amazing and others I just didn‘t connect with. I liked that they were linked, moving across generations and places following members of the same extended family. And now I feel like I need to check out some of the author‘s erotica!

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For #authorofcolor I'll go with Mary Anne Mohanraj. I loved her on the Writing Excuses podcast, and she's been on my TBR for a while.
She says Amitav Ghosh is one of her absolute favorite authors.
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