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Percy Winks needed a job and a place to stay. Macy Thorpewaite gave him an adventure. The Muu-Antiques has it all. Intrigue. True love. Muumuus. It's a mystery and a romance and a coming-of-age novel-and it might be the sweetest book ever written.

This hybrid collection of short prose pieces and Elliott Smith-inspired illustrations carries readers along a thin thread of memory-whether their own or the author's past, it becomes difficult to say. Shome Dasgupta's latest book recalls days at the movies, family heartache, and other personal experiences through soundtracks, daydreams, and attempts to remember what lingers from the spectrums of time. Whether pondering the vulnerability of a t...

Tentacles Numbing, taking place in present-day Seattle, centers around two Bengali brothers, Ravi and Vavi. The younger brother, Ravi, constantly daydreams about hanging himself, while Vavi lives on the streets in his own drunken world. While Ravi copes with his dreams, Vavi dreams of turning his screenplay, "Tentacles, Numbing" into a movie. Both brothers are struggling to manage their lives as they deal with the death of their parents, nosta...

Cirrus Stratus tells the mythic story of love and rage and how a once prominent family deteriorated while living in the pangful city of Dormier. Misguided by desire, every turn spins itself frustratingly into a quagmire. Both love story as well as family saga-where memories collide amidst destruction-the novel journeys into human spirit through the tinted glass of a tainted, yet magical, realism.

Iron Oxide attempts to explore the natural world as it relates to one's psyche--a mind in search of hope and solace through the various landscapes of solitude.

Shome Dasgupta is the author of i am here And You Are Gone (Winner Of The 2010 OW Press Contest), The Seagull And The Urn (HarperCollins India), Anklet And Other Stories (Golden Antelope Press), Pretend I Am Someone You Like (Livingston Press), Mute (Tolsun Books), Spectacles (Word West), and a poetry collection, Iron Oxide (Assure Press, 2021). ¿His fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction have appeared in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Hobar...

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In this collection of short stories and other miscellaneous moments, Shome Dasgupta creates a world that is somehow both clearly ours as well as barely recognizable. Dasgupta, the author of The Seagull And The Urn (Harper Collins India, 2013), weaves sophistication into pop surrealism, stripping away the meaningless noise that surrounds us and turning up the volume on our sticky yet ever-changing, beautifully disastrous lives. With Dasgupta as...

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