In her new collection of short stories, Death by a Thousand Cuts, Shashi Bhat walks the fine line of placing her stories within our society and common 21st century experience, but without allowing current technology to take over the narrative. Bhat tells this story in the second person; in doing so, she continuously reminds the reader that they, too, are exempt neither from humiliating personal struggles nor from problems that have no solutions. By neither naming this character nor her affliction and by telling this story in the second person, Bhat brilliantly pulls her reader into the chaos alongside her protagonist.