A bullied young girl feeds a tiger her badness to keep from exploding.

A researcher delves into the story of a small town ravaged by unusual violence. When tigers massacred the townspeople and hoards of children disappeared into the woods — never to be seen again — the survivors of the event and the generations that came after seek answers and reflect on their history, as well as the prevalence of tigers in their culture and mythology.

A young Chinese-American woman cannot connect to the human world around her because she is not just a human woman; she’s a tiger.

During the tumult of the Mexican Revolution, an adventurous young girl and her sickly brother hide in a cave from the soldiers pillaging their village. When they discover they’re being stalked by an escaped tiger, the girl risks her life to save her brother.

A daughter wakes up her mother to ask how much money she made from the dog races — but instead the mother distractedly dwells on her troubling encounters with men.

A middle-aged woman embarks on a brief psychological quest into the jungles of India to look for her husband, who has not returned from a hunting trip late at night.

To introduce his new classmate, Augie Sheean, to the kids in town, a boy spends most of his time with the Sheeans and learns about forgiveness and friendship.

A single mother whose own mother recently passed away travels to South Carolina with her seven-year-old son in search of her mother's pet parrot, as she hopes to hear her mother's voice again.

While their parents fight over the possibility of selling their family home during the Great Depression, two young sisters watch, and, in order to cope, one of the sisters forms a strong attachment to a stray cat in their neighborhood.

An aging Indian woman faces a health crisis as she struggles to stay close to her daughter in America.