control" and listed it as one of the must-read collections of Fall 2020. Debutiful, Ms. Magazine. Bustle listed it as a must-read book of September 2020 and as one of the best collections of 2020. Largehearted Boy listed it as a favorite short story collection of 2020. Book Riot listed it as one of the top ten short story collections of 2020 by Asian authors. Other venues that gave positive or rave reviews: The Dallas Morning News; Texas Public Radio; Open the Magazine; The National Book Review; New York Journal of Books; NRI Pulse; India Currents; Puerto del Sol; National Book Critics' Circle; Phoebe Journal; Vagabond City; Platform Magazine; and The Hindu Business Line.. Tabish Khair, writing for The Hindu, described the work thus: ". . . Bhatt gets under the skin of her characters with an ease that is difficult to achieve when creating characters beyond the pale of capital and caste. [. . .] using lively, sculpted language that avoids the stilted, literary English often afflicting Indian English writing." Anthologies Bhatt's story 'Return to India' was included in The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2021, selected by Alafair Burke and series editor, Steph Cha. In her introduction, Burke wrote: "In “Return to India”, Jenny Bhatt uses the structure of witness statements to build a tightly woven mystery, while effortlessly balancing a broad cast of diverse characters and voices as they collectively narrate the painful series of facts leading to a crime of violence." In 2023, the crime/noir forward anthology, The Dark Waves of Winter, edited by David M. Olsen, included a short story by Bhatt titled 'Lili's Song'. IndieReader called the anthology "a first-rate anthology for literary short story fans with consistently excellent writing throughout." Literary Translation Ratno Dholi: The Best Stories of Dhumketu (literary translation) Shortlisted for the Valley of Words Book Award in the 'English Translations From Regional Languages' category, this book is a translation of 26 short stories by the Gujarati writer, Dhumketu, published by HarperCollins India in October 2020. The Hindustan Times praised the translation as "reasonably fast-paced and eminently accessible." Womensweb.in said that "Jenny Bhatt’s translation is nuanced but simple, and does justice to these stories.” Firstpost wrote that "Her translations make for a crisp and honest rendering of 20th century Gujarat . . ." The Hindu wrote: "The translator of this collection, Jenny Bhatt, contextualizes [Dhumketu's] work in the introduction while providing