Love Songs for a Lost Continent

This is the book we needed to read yesterday... a book we will still be reading tomorrow. - Porochista Khakpour author of Sick and Sons and Other Flammable ObjectsFrom the glittering heat of Indias Pink City to the palm-lined streets of Silicon Valley and the vanilla-bean fields of Madagascar Anita Felicellis debut collection delivers a dazzling array of precisely drawn characters searching for identity in the seemingly narrow spaces of their everyday lives.Imbued with magic Felicellis stories center on first- and second-generation Tamil Americans--immigrants daughters and lovers exploring what it means to lose and to love to continually reinvent oneself while honoring the personal histories and lost continents that shape us all.