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About the Book: ?From first to last, these beautiful stories are a pleasure to read, vividly written with layered emotion.?? Camille Gooderham Campbell, Managing Editor of Every Day Fiction?RK Biswas? short story collection Breasts and Other Afflications of Women is a garden of delights. Each story is a nugget of wit and wisdom plumbing the depths of what it means to be a woman at different stages of her life ? single, married, widowed. Biswas writes with an emotionally fluid pen, her descriptions crisp and precise whether we are following an aged maid who finds herself out of a much needed job, or a modern woman desperately seeking a job for self-fulfillment. Biswas takes us to simmering kitchens in India and rainy streets in Singapore, to marital battlegrounds and playgrounds where teachers and students connect and, as her characters find meaning in their lives, so you too will see your hopes and dreams reflected in these heartfelt stories.? - Soniah Kamal author of the novel An Isolated Incident, and the satire ?Hairy Potter: Collected Columns.? About the Author: R K Biswas is the author of Culling Mynahs and Crows, published by Lifi Publications, India. Prior to this, her prose and poetry were published across the globe, in print and online journals and anthologies. Notably, Per Contra (USA), The Paumanok Review (USA), Markings (Scotland, UK), Crannog (Ireland) Stony Thursday (Ireland), The Little Magazine (India), Etchings (Australia), Mascara Literary Review (Australia), Eclectica (USA), Mobius (USA), Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (Hong Kong), to name a few. In 2012 she won first prize in the Anam Cara Writer?s Retreat Short Story Competition. Her poem ?Cleavage? was long-listed in the Bridport Poetry Prize 2006 and was also a finalist in the 2010 Aesthetica Creative Arts Contest, UK. In 2007, her story ? ?Ahalya?s Valhalla? ? was among Story South?s Million Writers? notable stories, USA. Her poem ?Bones? was nominated for a 2010 Pushcart by Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. She was one among ten Indian poets to feature in an exclusive anthology edited by Jayant Mahapatra, published by Nirala Publications. She has participated in poetry and literary festivals in India and abroad. She blogs at: http://rumjhumkbiswas.wordpress.com