My Mother PattuFinely textured, humane and deeply relevant, these stories of love, loss, and the politics of identity, race, and belonging, challenge comfortable conventions about ourselves. In turn wry and humorous, poignant and searing, they haunt our minds long after they are done. Deeply humane, in turn wry and humorous, the stories in this collection haunt readers with their searing honesty. Lalitha, abused by her own mother, learns that bullies carry emotional