A Window in the Wall and Other Stories
Rizvi, Shahzad This lively collection of short stories, some set in India and some in contemporary America, explores love, loss, and the muddle between the two. In the title story, a student falls in love with his mysterious neighbor, who would be perfect... if she weren't dead. In "Rage, " an actor discovers a wrenching truth about the boy he has killed in anger. And in "Break-up, " a husband draws the wrong conclusion from his wife's emotional withdrawal.