Prasenjit Gupta’s collection of short fiction, A Brown Man and Other Stories, arose out of his experience of many years as a brown man in a predominantly white world: an experience often leading to profound changes in character and outlook. These are stories about immigrants, people finding their place in a new country. The characters in these stories survive—they live and laugh and grieve and remember—always in between: suspended between two continents, two language and cultures, two different lives.

Sometimes this crossing of cultures results in positive changes, but often it also brings the knowledge that life in another place is challenging in many ways. How different people deal with these challenges in their different ways is the subject of these beautifully crafted stories.

These stories will fascinate those who left home as well as those who stayed.