In this beautiful collection, Amit Chaudhuri's stories range from a divorcee about to enter into an arranged marraige to a teengaed poet who develops a relationship with a lonely windower, from a singing teacher struggling to make a living out of the boredom of his students to gauche teenager desperate to hurdle past his adolescence. Ripe with subtlety, elegance and deep feeling, this is vintage Chaudhuri.