Bombay Hangovers by Rochelle Potkar

on Oct 19, 2022

Superbly penned stories of struggle and survival, love and frustration, cultural conflicts and pitiable adjustments, family equations, and social complications. The range of topics Rochelle Potkar touches upon is remarkable. The absurdities, pathos, and miseries that are part of our lives are captured in a poignant light. This is a must-read volume. -- Damodar Mauzo Having made her mark in poetry, Rochelle Potkar has moved with elan into fiction. I admire the way she structures a scene, shade by shade, tile by tile, leaving the reader admiring the story as a piece of finished art. -- Keki Daruwalla Potkar’s courageous and suave collection takes contemporary Indian writing in English to the inner landscapes of Bombay’s one-room-kitchens, racecourse fortunes, and Kamathipura. Her stories are dexterous explorations in tenderness, ambition, and sexual abandon. Deceptively straightforward and peppered with wry humor, the stories and their piquant characters come alive against the fascinating canvas of the maximum city. --Pervin Saket These jewels in the guise of stories are adventures in the interior lives of people who not only love and aspire but thrive with the ecstasies of feeling. --William Pei Shih About the Author - Fictionist | Poet | Critic | Curator | Editor | Translator | Screenwriter Rochelle Patkar is the author of Four Degrees of Separation and Paper Asylum – shortlisted for the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2020. Her poetry film Skirt was showcased on Shonda Rhimes’ Shondaland. She is an alumna of Iowa’s International Writing Program (2015) and a Charles Wallace Writer’s fellow, at the University of Stirling (2017). She has read her poetry in India, Bali, Iowa, Macao, Stirling, Glasgow, Hongkong, Ukraine, Hungary, Bangladesh, and the Gold Coast. Her first feature-length screenplay was a quarter-finalist at the Atlanta Film Festival Screenwriting Competition 2020