# A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness

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- Authors: [Jai Chakrabarti](https://www.bookquiver.com/jai-chakrabarti)
- Language: en_IN
- Published: 2023-07-01

## Description

In the fifteen masterful stories that make up this collection, Jai Chakrabarti crosses continents and cultures to explore what it means to cultivate a family today, across borders, religions, and race. In the title story, a closeted gay man in 1980s Kolkata seeks to have a child with his lover’s wife. An Indian widow, engaged to a Jewish man, struggles to balance her cultural identity with the rituals and traditions of her newfound family. An American musician travels to see his guru for the final time-and makes a promise he cannot keep. A young woman from an Indian village arrives in Brooklyn to care for the toddler of a biracial couple. And a mystical agent is sent by a mother to solve her son’s domestic problems. Throughout, the characters’ most vulnerable desires shape life-altering decisions as they seek to balance their needs against those of the people they hold closest. The stories in A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness capture men and women struggling with transformation and familial bonds; they traverse the intersections of countries and cultures to illuminate what it means to love in uncertain times; and they showcase the skill of a storyteller who dazzles with the breadth of his vision.

## Editions

### A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness

- Publisher: india_hamish_hamilton
- ISBN: 978-06-7009-987-0
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2023-07-01
- Language: en_IN

### A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness

- Publisher: knopf
- ISBN: 978-05-2565-894-8
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2023-02-21
- Language: en_US