Sibling Syndrome

Disturbing. Lyrical. Unflinching. Entirely, devastatingly human. Every story in SIBLING SYNDROME approaches the same subject: desire between siblings, from a different cultural context, emotional register and literary tradition. The result is a book unlike any other currently in print: a sustained, multi-voiced literary investigation of the most transgressive form of human longing. From a haunted haveli in Madhya Pradesh to a university rehearsal room in Minnesota. From a colonial drawing room on the eve of a society wedding to a hostel room in a city where rain makes everything more dangerous. From frozen ponds to Egyptian dream-memory, this collection is a world unto its own. Somewhere between the stories you read here and the ones you will not admit to imagining, is the uncomfortable truth that literature exists to name: desire is not always reasonable, love is not always safe, and the people we are closest to are also the people most capable of undoing our ideas of innocence. FEATURING THE WORKS OF Andrew Kurtz, Anwen Redlake, Charlotte Diallo, Daniel DiQuinzio, Katja Taylor, Lawrence Dagstine, Olivia Arieti, Pip Pinkerton, Rasiika Sen, Siddharth Pathak, Soter Lucio, Swarnarekha Chakraborty, Tripti Das AND Z I Mahmud. Edited by RASIIKA SEN