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"In the title story, an Indian man's chance exposure to a Western-style porn film affects not only his marriage - his wife hides for hours, then days, then weeks at a time from his renewed desire - but also his neighborhood, as traditional notions of marriage, intimacy, and propriety confront the unspeakable, and the tacitly alluring. In "The Sculptor of Sands," a mystical tale with the depth and resonance of legend, a slight young man's sensuous sand sculptures transfix a seaside community and, despite their evanescence, leave an indelible impression on the women of the town. In "My…