Fiction. Literature. Short Stories. HTML:From the internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize�??winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight stories that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand.
 
In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new city, is visited by her father, who carefully tends the earth of her garden, where he and his grandson form a special bond. But he�??s harboring a secret from his daughter, a love affair he�??s keeping all to himself. In �??A Choice of Accommodations,�?� a husband�??s attempt to turn an old friend�??s wedding into a romantic getaway weekend with his wife takes a dark, revealing turn as the party lasts deep into the night. In �??Only Goodness,�?� a sister eager to give her younger brother the perfect childhood she never had is overwhelmed by guilt, anguish, and anger when his alcoholism threatens her family. And in �??Hema and Kaushik,�?� a trio of linked stories�??a luminous, intensely compelling elegy of life, death, love, and fate�??we follow the lives of a girl and boy who, one winter, share a house in Massachusetts. They travel from innocence to experience on separate, sometimes painful paths, until destiny brings t