Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature

novel arrangement challenging for many Ameri-
cans as well as Asians. Again in this story, Pittalwala
rehearses his regular preoccupations: the gap in
comprehension between parents and children; the
money-obsessed, unfriendly ambience of America;
the effects of a loveless marriage that causes misery
even after one partner is deceased; and the conflict
between duty to parents and siblings and duty to
a wife. “Legacy” works well as a starting point into
the serious fiction of Iqbal Pittalwala.
Presently, Pittalwala teaches creative writing for
continuing education students at the University of
California, Riverside Extension Center. Pittalwala

has suggested that his next book may be a novel.

Whether his next book is a novel or another col-

lection of short stories, readers and scholars inter-

ested in uncompromising depictions of the Asian

experience either in India or abroad in America

will read it with enthusiastic interest.

Bibliography

Pittalwala, Iqbal. Dear Paramount Pictures. Dallas:

Southern Methodist University Press, 2002.

Kevin De Ornellas

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