Sugar, Smoke, Song

Sugar, Smoke, Song is a collection of nine linked stories set in the Bronx, California, India, and Brazil. Following the secrets and passions of young women, these stories and their narrators cross genres and rules to arrive at unforeseen lives. A subway rider remembers enacting the gods with her estranged twin, a concert usher discovers her tango-dancing boyfriend’s lover, and a literacy worker confesses the gambles she and others have lost through the bluesy singers she admires. Told through semi-experimental play with nonlinear plots, plural narrators, and hybrid prose, these stories embody the experiences of Asian American women carrying histories both unseen and cyclically lived.

ADVANCE PRAISE

Sugar, Smoke, Song: The fire and guts of this material made a helix with the poetics and heart of the story. I was left breathless several times. This writer is on the cusp of inventing a signature language meant for telling this particular story.” —Lidia Yuknavitch

An orange background with an image of a girl with brown hair and white script that reads Sugar, Smoke, Song a novel by Reema Rajbanshi.

Reema Rajbanshi

Publication Date: August 25, 2020

Genre/Imprint: Red Hen Press, Short Stories

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ISBN: 978-1-59709-891-5