Roswitha Joshi’s latest titled Spaced out has the appropriate by-line ‘A cross-Cultural Cocktail’. In this author’s third collection of stories, the focus is on migrant life from India to another country or vice versa. Apart from the immigrant experience, the stories also delve into the issues of friendship, husband-wife relationship, extra-marital affairs, etc. There are stories of bonhomie, societal gup-shup, marital strife, etc. and at the core are universal issues of human ego clash, ageing process, etc. which rise above ethnic or national allegiances. Short pieces of lilting poetry add to the uniqueness of the book.