Things We Found During the Autopsy

By Kuzhali Manickavel

Things We Found During the Autopsy is South Indian writer Kuzhali Manickavel's second collection of short fiction, in which she presents a dizzying array of apocalyptic visions and fractured childhood memories.

These stories contain the following: a dragon; angels; Indian culture; one Christmas story for children; no Indian culture whatsoever; men; poor people; voluntarily homeless youths; women; drugs; sex; Indian dads in cold foreign countries; vomit; boys; girl's hostels; girls; future tense; the Tropicool Icy-Land Urban Indian Slum; ash, and the people who eat ash; authentic village life written from a privileged English-speaking perspective; homosexuals; white people; references to Rajinikanth; non-italicized Tamil words; whores; brain aneurysms; Western dance in South Indian women's colleges; Pazhani; floods; shapeshifters; men named Kathir; minty-fresh non-cola cola; and wannabe Naxalites.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9380636172
• ISBN13: 9789380636177
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Blaft Publications
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.3"