New Review - Barlen Pyamootoo - Center of Flacq (WWB)

The latest addition to the website is my review of Mauritian author Barlen Pyamootoo's short story, Center of Flacq.

Center of Flacq portrays itself as a standard, rather average "foreign writer" kind of story, aimed at middle-class, white, English-speaking readers. This facade cracks rather quickly, and then shatters in the final sentence. And it's all rather wonderful, really.

You can read the review here.

Center of Flacq is a short story from the Words Without Borders May 2012 issue, Writing From the Indian Ocean.