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Jai Chakrabarti is the author of the novel A Play for the End of the World, which won the National Jewish Book Award for debut fiction, was long-listed for the PEN/Faulkner Award and short-listed for the Tagore Prize. He is also the author of the story collection A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness. His short fiction has received both an O. Henry Award and a Pushcart Prize and has been anthologized in the Best American Short Stories and performed on Selected Shorts by Symphony Space. His nonfiction has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and elsewhere. Born in Kolkata, India, he now lives in New York with his family.

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	The Best Short Stories 2024: The O. Henry Prize Winners by Amor Towles (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jenny Minton Quigley (Goodreads Author) (Series Editor), Emma Binder (Contributor) 4.12 avg rating — 1,308 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Small Odysseys: Selected Shorts Presents 35 New Stories by Hannah Tinti (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Rabih Alameddine 3.78 avg rating — 296 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness: Stories 3.67 avg rating — 261 ratings — published 2023 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ploughshares Spring 2023 Guest-edited by Alice Hoffman by Alice Hoffman (Goodreads Author), Jennifer Haigh (Goodreads Author), Mary Gordon 3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“After the turbulence had passed, she’d grown angry at Jaryk, because he hadn’t been next to her to tell a joke or even to hold her hand. Her compassion for him began to dry up as a new wound opened.”
― Jai Chakrabarti, A Play for the End of the World

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“Thank you for your kindness,” he tells her, knowing his smile will translate while his words will not.”
― Jai Chakrabarti, A Play for the End of the World

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“It seemed cruel to say, There are no deer here—only rats. Maybe Sarah was living in her memory now, from when she was a girl in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where there were always deer about.”
― Jai Chakrabarti, A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness: Stories

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