Sleeping With Movie Stars

I had the idea from books and movies that love was a disease that afflicted only the young and the beautiful and that this was something I had escaped on a technicality. I was too thin too dark. But now I realized I would never be free of its dangers; that I might make a fool of myself for love at any time from now into the distant future. This collection of eight short stories traces the life of a dancer through the years. In the seventies she is sent as a teenager from Canada to study dance in India away from the corrupting influences of the West. She finds instead a world of sensuality beyond anything previously experienced. She meets a movie star goes on bike rides with boys she doesn t know and learns about the perils of falling in love from the plight of an older revered man. Time and again she comes back to India as a wife and a mother to rediscover the earthiness and passion of her youth. Gitanjali Kolanad transforms fragments of life into stories of love inf