My family, both immediate and extended, in the U.S. and in India, especially my parents, Kunj and Nalini Mehta, and my brother, Nimish Mehta, for support beyond anything anyone could ever expect; my uncle and aunt, Shirish and Nita Parikh, for generously providing time and space for me to complete this collection; and my cousin, Sodhan Parikh, for the New Year’s Day phone call that did more for me than he could know.
And, of course, my partner, Robert Bingham: exacting editor, astute critic, and love of my life.
About the Author
RAHUL MEHTA received his MFA from Syracuse University, where he was the Cornelia Carhart Ward Fellow. Portions of Quarantine have appeared in New Stories from the South, The Kenyon Review, The Sun, Epoch, Noon, and Fourteen Hills. Mehta lives with his partner in Alfred, New York, and teaches at Alfred University.
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QUARANTINE. Copyright © 2011 by Rahul Mehta. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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