READ Being Here: Stories (University Press of Kentucky New Poetry & Prose Series)

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&quotWeare all now writing stories. Sometimes in memory, sometimes in air. The wind lifts and passes us in gusts. Our stories scatter over continents, camouflaged histories we cannot share.&quotIn Being Here, Manini Nayar brings together a finely crafted collection of interconnected stories that follow &quotthedaily miracle&quotof her characters' inner lives. Nayar brings to the forefront immigrant women making their way in the world as mothers, as wives, as outliers, and as rebels. She writes about their insistence on autonomy, the absurdity of the struggles they face, and their occasional

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