Love Songs for a Lost Continent

Winner of the 2016 Mary Roberts Rinehart Award. From the glittering heat of India's Pink City to the palm-lined streets of Silicon Valley and the vanilla-bean fields of Madagascar, Anita Felicelli's debut collection delivers an array of precisely drawn characters searching for identity in the seemingly narrow spaces of their everyday lives.

Thirteen dazzling stories: A young South Indian woman is convicted of killing her tiger husband with. A young man pursues his crush on an elephant polo player. A woman runs away with her wealthy boyfriend to a vanilla farm in Madagascar. An ennui-ridden hitchhiker joins forces with a con artist.

Imbued with magic, Felicelli's stories center on first- and second-generation Tamil Americans--immigrants, daughters, and lovers exploring what it means to lose and to love, to continually reinvent oneself while honoring the personal histories and lost continents that shape us all.