It's 2054, at 6 a.m. EST, this planet is officially free of men over the age of three for an entire year.
The world needs a rest from men, and women have developed a novel solution. When my taxi driver tells me he has bullet wounds from the Russian police, speaks five languages, and teaches at Harvard, I start taking notes. Personal stories, both real and artfully remembered, are forever fascinating. A boy from Sonora is kidnapped and held prisoner in California—will he find justice? A father is willing to murder for an inheritance. A San Francisco private detective discovers his campy client has a stage name of Carmen Bananda as a backstage mystery unfolds.
I.D. Kapur began traveling at 17 to Europe and has visited over twenty countries. A year’s stay in Northern India and over a dozen extended visits inspired her to write short stories based on her experiences.
"The stories in A Year Without Men create a powerful sense of place with rich sensory and emotional detail. Characters are appealing in their humor and the compassion they inspire. I want to meet these people and be there with them! Some endings surprise us and others give us a satisfying sense of the inevitable playing out. All the stories, both imaginative and those from I.D. Kapur's experience, have a depth of reality that makes them unforgettable."
- Ann Saxton Reh, author of the David Markum Mysteries
"These well-told stories vividly illuminate the lives of distinctive characters and their thoroughly engaging tribulations and triumphs."
- Jack Adler, author of The Tides of Faiths and other novels
"Mickee Voodoo is a very entertaining parody of a 'hardboiled' detective story in the mode of Chandler, Hammett, and, more recently, Robert B. Parker...witty banter ensues with the detective cracking wise in a colorful idiom both in dialogue and narrative...delights in wordplay...very clever, and is quite funny...Kapur is a talented and skillful fiction writer."
- John DeChancie, author of The Skyway Trilogy and The Castle Perilous Series