This book, Sohrab Homi Fracis's premier fiction collection, offers readers a passage to an unfamiliar destination - a world in limbo between East and West, India and America, home and away. With piercing insight, Fracis expertly reveals the underlying differences between immersion in India's culture - Hindu, Muslim, or Parsi - and life as an Indian in America. The stories here, alternating between East and West, serve as companion pieces, interrelated across continents in both theme and content.