Mallika is a painfully shy young woman growing up in the heart of a close-knit, 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 that causes her to lose three days of her memory and spiral into a deep depression, Mallika 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'' intertwining 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. Format Inbunden Omfång 480 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Verve Books Utgivningsdatum 2023-01-17 ISBN 9780857308344