Dysfunction by Annam Manthiram

Releases December 2012.

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Annam Manthiram is the author of the novel, After the Tsunami (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2011), and a short story collection,   Dysfunction: Stories, which was a Finalist in the 2010 Elixir Press Fiction Contest and in Leapfrog Press’ 2010 Fiction Contest.  Annam's prize-winning work has been published in Poets & Writers Magazine, Cream City Review, Sierra Nevada Review, and others, and she currently serves as Associate Editor of  Grey Sparrow, winner of the 2010 Council of Editors of Learned Journals' Best New Literary Journal Award. A graduate of the MA Writing program at the University of Southern California, Ms. Manthiram resides in New Mexico with her husband, Alex, and son, Sathya. Visit her on the web at www.annammanthiram.com.

About the Collection:
Dramatically different in style and form, these tales range from the wicked (a divorcée recounts her failed marriages sardonically from A to Z), to heart-wrenchingly commonplace (an older Indian woman struggles to find a husband during humiliating bride-viewings), and emotionally barren (a mother cannot understand why her family doesn’t love her enough to remember her son’s first birthday). At times funny, but always incisive, this collection of stories examines the survival of those whose only certainty is dysfunction.