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Always Coming Home (Paperback)
Ursula K. Le Guin; Introduction by Shruti Swamy
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In "A Simple Composition," a husband's professional crisis leads to
his wife's discovery of a dark, ecstatic joy. And in the title
story, an exhausted mother watches, hypnotised by fear, as a
California wildfire approaches her home. Immersive and assured,
provocative and probing, these are stories written with the edge
and precision of a knife blade. Set in the United States and India,
they reveal small but intense moments of beauty, pain, and power
that contain the world.
Vidya's childhood is marked by the shattering absence and then the
bewildering reappearance of her mother and baby brother at the
family home. Restless, observant, and longing for connection with
her brilliant and increasingly troubled mother, Vidya navigates the
stifling expectations of her life with a vivid imagination until
one day she peeks into a classroom where girls are learning kathak,
a dazzling, centuries-old dance form that requires the utmost
discipline and focus. Her pursuit of artistic transcendence through
kathak soon becomes the organizing principle of her life, even as
she leaves home for college and falls in complicated love with her
best friend. As the uncertain future looms, she must ultimately
confront the tensions between romantic love, her art, and the
legacy of her own imperfect mother. Lyrical and deeply sensual,
with writing as mesmerizing as kathak itself, Shruti Swamy's The
Archer is a bold portrait of a singular woman coming of age as an
artist - navigating desire, duty, and the limits of the body. It is
also an electrifying and utterly immersive story about the
transformative power of art, and the possibilities that love can
open when we're ready.
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