'My brother preferred being with mother and me. He used to help usprepare vegetables in the kitchen or make the bread. But what he liked best was listening to my mother's stories.' But those childhood daysare long gone, and now a great distance divides sister and brother,children and mother. The stories in this volume of World Stories comefrom India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The writers are RomeshGunesekera, M. Athar Tahir, Chitra Divakaruni, Anu Kumar, AnneRanasinghe, Ruskin Bond, Anita Desai, Vijita Fernando, and AmaraBavani Dev.