How to Make Your Mother Cry: Fictions
West Virginia University Press, 2024
“…an incredible cross-cultural manifesto of word and body: What is home. What is mother. What is family. What is self. What is woman, and how do we story her.”
—Lidia Yuknavitch, author of Thrust and Verge
—Lidia Yuknavitch, author of Thrust and Verge
“Urgent, intense, and intimate, the stories in Sejal Shah’s How to Make Your Mother Cry conjure memories and stir the soul. A clever and beautifully crafted collection!”
—Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
—Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
“Each sentence is its own jewel box of pleasures and delights. Like works by Sara Ahmed, Audre Lorde, and Claudia Rankine, this groundbreaking collection will be a touchpoint for years and decades to come.”
—Rahul Mehta, author of No Other World and Feeding the Ghosts
—Rahul Mehta, author of No Other World and Feeding the Ghosts
This Is One Way to Dance
Essays on Race, Place, & Belonging
University of Georgia Press, 2020
“While this memoir is frequently heart-breaking, it also dazzles with incandescent humor. One of the most nuanced, wise and tender portraits of immigration I have ever read.”
—Kiran Desai, Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Inheritance of Loss
“Each of these pieces captures what it means to be a citizen of a country that may never claim you as its own, to imagine your own brilliant fullness beyond its peripheral gaze.”
—Mira Jacob, author of Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations