Much of the story seems to be about the relationships within and Indian family. Then, it is gradually revealed that some of the people have been \“enhanced\” through an implant that counters negative emotions. From the viewpoint of the protagonist, the results are entirely positive, but what happens within the story suggests the opposite.\
}, year = {2019}, journal = {New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Colour}, pages = {207-26}, month = {01/2019}, publisher = {Solaris}, address = {Oxford, Eng.}, isbn = {978-1781085783 978-1-5344-4959-6 978-1328613103 }, note = {Rpt. in The Year\’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2020), 193-211, with an editor\’s note on 193; and in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020. Ed. Diana Gabaldon (Boston, MA: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020), 306-22, with a note on the author together with the author\’s note on the story on 399.\
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