The Seaside Bride and Other Stories

Dasu Krishanmoorty in his ninety fourth year has immense faith in the power of memories to bring back days already lived for a re-evaluation a leveling of highs and lows. Eventually every man searches his past for clues seeking to solve the enigma of being and the negotiation of a life not of his making. Dasu's personal tales are spun from four significant migrations that defined his life tracing his lineage to an ancestor who was also a migrant. He takes the reader to places with different histories geographies and cultures. Three of these locations once ruled by Muslim dynasties are open-air museums of royal tombs and homes to awe-inspiring Islamic marvels of architecture: Hyderabad Ahmedabad and New Delhi. In contrast the setting of the first story in Dasu's collection Cracking Infinity epitomizes modern minimalism in the United States the location of his last migration.