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Synopsis This collection of short stories, dares to explore dysfunctional motherhood. Flinching away stereotypes, first time author Shinie Antony has listed uterine woes with a dark and biting humor.Barefoot and Pregnant, a collection of short stories, dares to explore dysfunctional motherhood. While attempting to look beyond the conventional, it uncovers, along the way, a victim of gang-rape to whom the baby means legal advice, a doomed woman's last fling, the imminently pregnant beggar at traffic lights, the loss of a child either by disappearance or by death, surrogate mothers and even a man who longs to give birth.Flinging away stereotypes, first-time author Shinie Antony has listed uterine woes with a dark and biting humor. She won a Commonwealth Broadcasting Association story writing prize in 2001 for the surreal Somewhere in Gujarat, which is included in this collection as Mannu.