Soulmates

Kanchana Ugabe

Penguin Books India, 

176 pages, R199

Set in Nigeria, these stories explore the physical and spiritual aspects of being transplanted to a foreign country, of living with fluid roots. There is sadness, irony, even bitterness, as a "misfit sitting in the heart of Nigeria" comes to terms with having "to let go of things one by one—possessions, privacy, husband, marriage".