Copyright © 1988 by Bharati Mukherjee
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Stories in this book first appeared in Playboy, Mother Jones, Chelsea, The Literary Review; and have been reprinted in Best Canadian Stories, Best American Stories of 1987, and Editor’s Choice, 1987.
This work was completed under a grant from
the National Endowment for the Arts.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mukherjee, Bharati.
The middleman and other stories / by Bharati Mukherjee.
p. cm.
Contents: The middleman—A wife’s story—Loose ends—
Orbiting—Fighting for the rebound—The tenant—Fathering—
Jasmine—Danny’s girls—Buried lives—The management of grief.
eBook ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-9634-7
I. Title.
PR9499.3.M77M5 1988
813’.54—dcl9 87-35048
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