Dusk in the Front Pond, and Other Stories
Dusk in the Front Pond, and Other Stories
Marilyn Stanley
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Jude Castillo
, cassandra schiemann
, Deb Philippon
, Laura Sayson
, Melissa Kohlman
, Sandra Furlotte
, Paula Adam
, Linda Leitch
, Webb Lisa
, Deana Bueley
, Noelle Walsh
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Diane McPherson
, Melanie Solar
, Tami Osato
, Reilly Robson
, joy mills
, Benita Hartwell
, Natasa Ilic
, zelda dwyer
, Alex Naquin
, Margaret Lindo
, Liz Woloski
, EM Royea
, Kayla Bumstead
, LJ Law
, Pearl Saban
, Holly Elisabeth
, Laurie Burns
, Leila Grobel
, Janice B Knickle
, Linda Ham
, Katie Pakulak
, Barry Kazimer
, Meghan Redmile
, Josh Robinson
, Andrea Pole
, Remi Gunn
, Thelma Ball
, Cathy L Brown
, Janell Penner
, Stephanie Walters
, sarah campbell
, Debra Fisher
, Cathy White
, Tanis Anne
, Ashley Hunt
, Siu Fong
, Kim Fenton
, Candace Fertile
, Darlene Foster
, Janice Cournoyer
, Patricia Johnson
, Rachel Edmonds
, Vicki Bedford
, Rosa Cross
, Rodney Cross
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Kim Cappellina
, Nancy Steinhausen
, Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt
, Megan Brodie
, Char Krausnick
, jane luce
, Heather O'Connor
, Margaret Jones
, Alex Henderson
, Alanna King
, Mary Campbell
, Diane O'Flaherty
, finn mulryan
, Anne Range
, Susan Baues
, Mairi Lester
, P. Thompson
, Catherine Westerberg
, arnab ghosh
, Ellen Clarke
, Chris Lantz
, Joann Horgan
, C. Ray
, Robert Hykawy
, Penelope Penner
, Andrea Gillespie
, diana kirkwood
, Mary Lester
, Susan Fitzgerald
, Ruth Osgood
, Sara Conway
, Melissa Poremba
, Gwynn Scheltema
, Mary-Esther Lee
, Lisa Mallia
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Pam Keetch
, Susi Lovell
, Susan Grieshaber-Otto
, Randi Ann Doll
, Cindy Bodini
, Shonna Froebel
, Lara Maynard
, Beth Follett
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Dusk in the Frog Pond is a collection of eight short stories that explore the lives of immigrants as they deal with the challenges of migration, displacement, identity, nostalgia, loneliness, socio-economic disparity, and cultural assimilation. A particular focus is the theme of arranged marriages. The main characters are Muslim women in or from Bangladesh. Some of the marriages are happy. In others the women feel isolated, often trapped and always unloved. These are powerful stories, reflecting joy and sorrow, never forgetting the eternally burning fire of hope that both lives and dies within all of us, and depicting culture, tradition, and history in parallel force with today's modernized world.
