Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Cochin, Munnar, Kovalam, South India, 1995
4. The Stranger and I 3
5. An Introduction 10
6. Love in Another Country 17
7. Esoteric Exotica 26
8. Lines Addressed to a Devadesi 42
9. Montreal, Laurentian Mountains, New York, 1995
10. Maple Leaves Red as Drying Blood 51
11. I Shall Carry You with Me 61
12. Child Bride 75
13. Riding a Tiger 88
14. Delhi, Cochin, Kovalam, 1997
15. Orbits of Friendship 107
16. Life Is but a Dream 120
17. The Husband Who Neither Loved nor Used Her but Was a Ruthless Watcher 126
18. Cochin, Calicut, Malabar, 2000
19. Bliss in the Scent of His Perspiration 141
20. Beyond the Outskirts of the City 155
21. The Fear of the Year 168
22. A Pale Green Pond 177
23. The Laurentians, Montreal, 2000
24. Gift of a Man 189
25. The Depth of Sequestered Pools 202
26. Cochin, 2003
27. A Touch of Moonlight 209
28. You Embrace Me 218
29. Cochin, 2004
30. Exhalations 229
31. A Cloudburst of Intense Fantasy 237
32. Cochin, Punnayurkulam, 2005
33. That Close to Me 247
34. The Place of Quiet Happiness 257
35. Epilogue 267
36. Acknowledgments 269
37. Bibliography 273