Chaya Bhuvaneswar is the author of White Dancing Elephants: Stories.From her Q&A with Deborah Kalb:
Q: How was the book's title (also the title of the first story in the collection) chosen, and what does it signify for you?Visit Chaya Bhuvaneswar's website.
A: It's a Buddhist image, a South Asian image, but also resonates (I hoped) with the dream the narrator of the title story has, juxtaposing Disney elephants with far different imagery.
Q: Do you see certain themes running through the collection?
A: Loss, grief; what the Kirkus reviewer called "the aftermath" - definitely a state of being that all the characters face in...[read on]
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