A House Is a Body: Stories

A House Is a Body is a groundbreaking short story collection that will leave readers in awe of its raw emotion, vivid imagery, and profound insights into the human experience.

With twelve arresting stories set in the United States and India, Swamy's characters grapple with motherhood, relationships, and their bodies to reveal small but intense internal moments of beauty, pain, and power that contain the world.

From the secret romance of a young painter living alone in San Francisco and India's biggest celebrity, to a husband's professional crisis leading to his wife's discovery of a dark, ecstatic joy, to an exhausted mother watching hypnotized by fear as a California wildfire approaches her home, these stories are written with the edge and precision of a knife blade.

Don't miss out on this debut novel from a writer at the start of a stellar career - A House Is a Body is a must-read for anyone looking to be moved, provoked, and inspired by the power of storytelling.