Review: Alice comes of age
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 14, 2014
This novella is a deceptively simple story, cleverly crafted using Alice in Wonderland as a frame of reference. Like Alice, Mythili, the heroine here, has fallen down the rabbit hole of newly married life in a strange land. And like Alice, again, the people she meets there are wondrously strange. Mythili is first beguiled by the notion of belonging and then repulsed as secrets begin to roll out of tightly shut closets, though she is not above using her circumstances to push her writing ambitions forward. This was among five books I bought from Indireads and certainly not the first one I intended to read. It merely happened to be the first one on the list on my e-reader. But once I had begun reading, I had to know what happened next to Mythili, even hurrying back from a decidedly sub-grade film to read further. Please can we have some more adventures, this time, maybe, from Mama-land?Reviewed by Mimmy Jain, author A Scandalous Proposition, under the pseudonym, M M George