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.