“Memory can be fickle and can be misleading—either way, however lacking it can be, in its dearth there is a truth that leads to multiple sensations, spanning spectrums of a universe found in a mind,” writes Shome Dasgupta in “In the Shadow of a Bird,” just one of the gorgeous pieces in his collection of shorts called Histories of Memories (Belle Point Press). As a writer of creative nonfiction, I deeply relate to the “fickle” quality of memory Dasgupta describes.

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