Orbiting was included in the book Braided Lives: An Anthology of Multicultural American Writing, which was a collection of stories by different authors. According to Library blog - 'This anthology brings together the vivid stories and poems of Native American, Hispanic American, African American, and Asian American writers. It was created by Minnesota teachers, for teachers and students in Minnesota high schools. They were assisted in their work by scholars, writers, the staff of the Minnesota Humanities Commission and the officers of the Minnesota Council of Teachers of English.'
A story of complicated relationships in a family where permissions are taken for granted and nobody's happy with the life choices and career choices of the other member. The term orbiting here refers to how within a family, the power dynamic in a relationship can shift and be the center.
Everything and everyone then rotates around that one person. Sometimes that kind of one-sided family correlations can be unhealthy or downright inappropriate.
Like Mukherjee’s most stories, Orbiting also shows the unfairness towards other ethnicities and races in a predominantly white population in 70s America.
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