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Oindrila Mukherjee

Oindrila Mukherjee’s work has appeared in Arts&Letters, Greensboro Review, Silk Road Review, Salon, Gulf Coast, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Oxford Anthology of Bengali Literature, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a novel and a collection of stories. She teaches at Grand Valley State University.

Summer 2016

US

By Oindrila Mukherjee

The first time we think of ourselves as a group with a shared destiny is on a weekday morning in the middle of June.