Veliz Books
195 pages
March 2025
Fresh and provocative, the twelve stories in The Confines by Anu Kandikuppa deliver us into the cultural expectations, hierarchies, and taboos that define and limit our lives, especially the lives of women. A man’s seemingly innocent gesture at a party unravels buried tensions in a marriage. A grieving doctor chronicles the peculiar ailments of an elderly couple yearning for their absent son. A young woman wrestles with her unrequited attraction to a colleague. Set in India and the U.S., these elegant and rare stories explore love, loss, and resilience, uncovering the compromises and hopes that shape our search for happiness.