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Fear and Lovely

Anjana Appachana
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Product details

  • ISBN 9780857308320
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 31 Aug 2023
  • Publisher: Verve Books
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Description

Mallika is a painfully shy young woman growing up in the heart of a lively, sometimes stifling New Delhi colony. Though she is surrounded by love, her life is complicated by secrets that she, her mother and her aunt work hard to keep.

After suffering a trauma aged nineteen, Mallika loses three days of her memory and slowly spirals into a deep depression. She must find a way out of the abyss, back to herself and those she cares about. But she must also hide her mental illness from her community.

In a narrative that unfolds elliptically from the perspectives of Mallika and the seven people closest to her, the astonishing story of these characters lives emerges. For Mallika's family, childhood friends and the two men she loves are also hiding truths. As each gives voice to contending with their own struggles, secrets and silences shatter.
About Anjana Appachana
Anjana Appachana was born and educated in India, where she did her B.A (Hons) in English at Delhi University and her M.A in Sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru University. After working in India for a few years she went on to do her MFA in Creative Writing at Penn State. Subsequently, she has been living both in the US and in India. Appachana’s book, Incantations & Other Stories, was published in the UK, India, the US, Germany and France, and her novel Listening Now, in the US, India and France. Her short stories have been published in various journals, anthologies and magazines. Appachana is a recipient of the National Endowment of the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and an O. Henry Festival prize.

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