The titular story in Namita Gokhale’s Life on Mars: Collected Stories follows a woman who befriends an unusual young man the same age as her emotionally distant sons. The story derives its name from a passage where Gokhale makes a poignant connection between the stereotypical imagery of Martians as ‘little green men’, and a group of doctors in their green-hued scrubs, huddled around the woman as she enters the hospital.
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