'In this collection, we witness the miracle of a great writer's birth and brisk maturation, a blossoming incapable of withering, and that remains masterful and truthful today' Jhumpa Lahiri
'Gallant is funny, exacting and stern - in fact, an old-fashioned moralist,
luminescent, subtle and lasting. Gallant's chronicles of internal and
external exile are a fitting tribute to a diasporic century'
