Inauspicious Planets

In this collection of delicately crafted, poignant, often charmingly funny stories, Appadurai Muttulingam summons from the sweep of global forces the intimate realities of human relationships. From Kandahar to Nairobi, from the hills of Pakistan to the freeways of the Eastern Seaboard, Muttulingam’s characters grapple with loss, change, loyalty, and conscience. Muttulingam probes the sorrows and comical absurdities of human experience in these stories of wit, beauty, and invention.