Ripples: And Other Stories Margaret Smith (Editor the voice of the narrator

the voice of the narrator keeps shifting between pragmatic appraisal of his situation

Beautiful and innocent

Forced into an abusive marriage

The volume is rounded out by two additional stories that bring the history of Orsinia up to 1989

and that's not actually true' NEIL GAIMAN---Everything changes for Fat Charlie Nancy

Ripples: And Other Stories Margaret Smith (Editor the voice of the narratorAuthor: Shih ISBN: 9789670042893 Publisher: Fixi This polyphonic collection of twenty five stories presents a multitude of Malaysian perspectives spanning age, gender, and class. Yow char kwai hawkers compete for customers on a busy city street. Marital dynamics unfurl at an abortion clinic. On an island, a man's infatuation with a veiled woman takes a supernatural turn. A woman writes to her brother about their dead cat. Characters in these stories