Bodies in Motion

<p>Like the sweet heat of a palate-pleasing curry or the brilliant radiance of bougainvillea the short stories in Mary Anne Mohanraj's <em>Bodies in Motion</em> 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.</p>