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Blurb ‘What price would you pay to be extraordinary? What would you do to speak to a butterfly? Short Synopsis Shayamukthy cruises through life: shooting hoops, daydreaming and listening to her favourite books. Even moving from the US to India, to a new school, a new culture, hasn't really rattled her. But something isn't right anymore and it begins when a New Girl joins the school. She pulls Shui into a world of magic and wonderment, a world she has been hidden from all her life. What starts as a quest to look for a lost book, hurtles Shui into a world where people live in trees, talk to the dead and speak to butterflies. But like all power, magic comes at a steep price and under all things wondrous lie demons waiting to crawl out. The more Shui learns, the more she doubts everything and everyone around her. Will she be able to master her powers, or will they devour her and everyone she loves?
Travel writer and novelist Reshma Krishnan Barshikar is an erstwhile Investment Banker who, as she tells it, ?fell down a rabbit hole and discovered a world outside a fluorescent cubicle.? As a travel and features writer, she contributes to National Geographic Traveller, Harper?s Bazaar, Grazia, The Sunday Guardian, SilverKris, The Mint Lounge and The Hindu. She is also co-founder of the literary blog The Caterpillar Cafe. Fade Into Red, published by Random House was her debut novel and featured in Amazon Top 10 Bestsellers. She also holds well renowned workshops for young adults at both BDL Museum and Kala Ghoda and is very keen to build a strong Young Adult reading and writing community to fill the desperate lack of young adult fiction in the Indian Market. Her new Young Adult novel will be launching at the festival. Reshma is from the ISB Class of 2003. She calls both Mumbai and the Nilgiris home.
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