![]() While the other stories in the collection focus on the lives, foibles, and crises of the Parsi community in the Bombay housing complex called Firozsha Baag, “Swimming Lessons” shifts the focus to issues of the loneliness, racism, and cultural adjustment of Mistry’s Indian immigrant protagonist, a not so thinly veiled autobiographical character. It also gives him an opportunity to explore the writer’s uses of memory and events of his past life using the commentary of the narrator’s parents, who discuss the manuscript he sends them after living several years in Toronto. ![]() An important feature of the story is that its setting moves with the narrator from Bombay to Toronto and allows Mistry to draw deft parallels between the lives of the residents of apartment complexes in both of these crowded, multicultural urban settings. ![]() As “Swimming Lessons” is positioned as the last story in the collection, it has prompted many reviewers to give it particular attention. The set of eleven stories titled Tales from Firozsha Baag was well received by critics in both countries. ![]() ![]() “Swimming Lessons” is the last story in the collection of short fiction that first brought Rohinton Mistry national attention in Canada and subsequently the United States. ![]()
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