Each story in this book invites the reader to climb up a flight of stairs through a unique reading experience to an elevated space which exhibits a distinctive facet of contemporary Indian womanhood. These include, among others, a young village girl's gullibility to get trapped in the machinations of marketing and media, a single mother's painful efforts to get herself extricated from a potentially exploitative relation, a street smart woman's shrewd attempt to exploit and elderly mother's affectionate memories of her daughter, a young woman's cravings for attention of her lover and a working mother's inability to manage both the demands at home and career. All these universal issues have been transformed into unique reading experiences by the author through meticulously crafted stories. Among these, 'Padikal' and 'Buy Back' stand tall as hard hitting social commentaries and deserve special mention. 'Mayaja! lam' is unconventional in theme and craft and appears as an attempt in experimental writing.
To sum up, this book, with exquisite stories selected from a body of work which spans nearly two decades, announces the formal arrival of an author who deserves to be read by the connoisseurs of Malayalam stories.
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