A House Is a Body : Algonquin Books : 9781643751450 : 164375145X : 27 Jul 2021 : Finalist for the 2021 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction ?A House Is a Body will not simply be talked about as one of the greatest short story collections of the 2020s; it will change the way all stories?short and long?are told, written, and consumed. There is nothing, no emotion, no tiny morsel of memory, no touch, that this book does not take seriously.  Yet, A House Is a Body might be the most fun I've ever had in a short story collection.? ?Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy   Dreams collide with reality, modernity with antiquity, and myth with identity in the twelve arresting stories of A House Is a Body. 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 worl