Riding High with Krishna and a Baseball Bat & Other Stories

Uma Parameswaran's earlier works have earned her praise and awards. <I>What was Always Hers</I> won the Jubilee Award for the best collection of short stories published in 1999. Of the title story that appeared earlier as <I>The Sweet Smell of Mother's Milk-Wet Bodice</I> reviewers had this to say:</p>A deftly wrought novella possessing the quiet elegance born of outrage.(The Globe and Mail)</P><P>Uma Parameswaran has written with the insight and lyricism of the fine poet she is. June Callwood</P><P>It is activist literature woman-empowering fiction and it has a political edge. (Herizons)</P><P>Of her novel <I>Mangoes on the Maple Tree</I> Andreas Schroeder has said A hymn to the joys and sorrows of family in the best most inclusive sense of the word.</P>