Publisher's Synopsis
This collection of stories presents a diverse variety of characters, situations, locales, and dilemmas. It attempts to capture the experiences of most citizens of the 'Modern World' during the last half of the twentieth century, who find themselves uprooted, transplanted, alienated, oppressed, depressed, processed, and discarded by a civilization which should have been the fulfillment of every dream. Javaid Qazi's imagination roams from the East to the West and back again,searching for the redeeming moment, the healing touch, the epiphany which will solve all mysteries, resolve all conflicts. His characters whether in Martha's Vineyard, in Arizona, or in California speak to every reader, because they are prototypical representatives of the human enterprise on earth. Theirquest for meaning, fulfillment, and redemption is our quest. And if their lives lack grandeur or are falsified by a moral malaise, if they seem depraved or deluded, or driven by desperate needs into dubious adventures, one need look no further than a mirror to discover why that may be the case.
