The Strangest of Fruit: Collected Stories

The intrinsic horror in this collection is the suggestion that we are only saved from the constant lurking threat of annihilation by our inept human gestures--the weak joke, the evening cocktail, the petty jealousies, the ill-considered trust of strangers, idle flirtations. In the tradition of Isabel Allende's magical realism, Ahmed writes of emotions and experiences too large to be contained by mortal characters. In this collection of arresting short stories, we find complex and vulnerable...