Notes of a Mediocre Man

Two brothers come to school and do nothing but tell stories. A man goes to a singles dance. A retired man in India tries to collect his pension. A woman tells the story of her husband's death in partition India. An unnamed narrator offers his 'notes' on modern-day America, the culture of success. Some of the stories are set in India, some in America. Some stories are fable-like, others more realistic. Some deal with sex, some are 'intellectual' stories. But all stories deal, in one way or another, with small, 'mediocre' people, people trying to fit into a world of bigness, applause, success.