Demons: Family Snapshots

by Rajesh Parameswaran

Each story in this series offers a poignant glimpse of family life – the ties we cling to; the ties we try to sever; and the ties that make us who we are. Told from a myriad of perspectives, from a dazzling array of some of the finest short story writers of our generation (including Jhumpa Lahiri, George Saunders, Jon McGregor and Elizabeth Gilbert), Family Snapshots gives us a fresh, empathetic and moving insight into the meaning of family. Demons is taken from Rajesh Parmeswaran's astonishing collection of short stories, I am an Executioner.

38 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 3, 2013

About the author

From The Washington Post:
"Rajesh Parameswaran takes [a] taste for the bizarre and catapults it into the realm of the masterful. I AM AN EXECUTIONER: LOVE STORIES marks the advent of a genuinely distinctive voice in American fiction, abundantly inventive, deceptively cunning and fearless in its careening disregard for the strictures of careful, polite storytelling... Parameswaran has the knack for mimicry and ventriloquism of a born outsider, guilelessly transporting the reader into a Swiftian upside-down land where the rules of logic and of sense have been temporarily suspended.... a debut collection of startling freshness and force."

Reviews

[Renita D'Silva · Rating 4 out of 5]

Exquisitely crafted

[Sophia Mcdowell · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting little short story about a woman wishing her husband dead.