[Reviewlet] Quarantine, by Rahul Mehta
by V. Jo Hsu
V. Jo Hsu considers Rahul Mehta’s debut story collection, which she says addresses issues connected to sexual, racial, and cultural identities in artful ways, and through evocative language.
V. Jo Hsu received her BA in English and Visual and Dramatic Arts from Rice University. She is currently working towards her MFA at Penn State. She has forthcoming reviews inPleaides and Green Mountains Review. Her short story, “Flashpoint,” will appeared in the debut issue ofTINGE Magazine (April 2011). If forced to choose only three books, she would recommend Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex, Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies, and The Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender. She often wishes she could dream through the beautiful, kaleidoscopic lens of Bender’s work.
V. Jo Hsu considers Rahul Mehta’s debut story collection, which she says addresses issues connected to sexual, racial, and cultural identities in artful ways, and through evocative language.
Two recent releases from Dzanc imprint Keyhole Press expand the scope of literary fiction. How to Predict the Weather by Aaron Burch and How They Were Found by Matt Bell create provocative new worlds in their debut collections of short stories. Consistent with this press’s production of thought-provoking fiction, Burch and Bell unravel beautiful and unsettling tales with exquisite prose.
