Rochelle Potkar
2022
"Rochelle Potkar’s Bombay Hangovers is a people-watching, hidden-gem spotting, time-traveling city tour. Each short story is both respite and raucous, and together this collection is a depiction of realism that is tender yet hard-hitting, familiar yet curious. Immersion and participation are two cards always up Potkar’s sleeve. She is acutely aware of the processes that add to the realism she so deftly illustrates in each story. Her attention to sensory details stands the reader in the same room as the character, like in “Noise”, She found comfort in the rapid hissing of the stove grate, the tapping noises the spoons made on cooking vessels, the abrupt cough of the toaster, the monstrous lectures of the masala mixer." - Juilee Kamble, Calyx
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