Acid

<p><b><i>Life is a brief waking dream--but who casts the spell?</i></b> <p/> Two striking women Kamala and Shaly helm an unusual household fueled by their intense tempestuous romance in a rapidly changing Bangalore. Downstairs Kamala's sons take care of each other in their own way-the twins are bound together by an early accident that paralysed Shiva making Aadi his brother's caretaker. Beautiful Shaly is the object of more than one person's affections--and she too has a complicated past. <p/> When Kamala's mother dies she returns to Kerala--to an ancestral house of horrors which lies next to the cremation grounds in Cochin's outlying reaches: a place which nevertheless is home. However nothing can prepare her for the devastation that ensues in this lyrical hallucinatory trip of a story. <p/> Utterly gripping and powerfully unsettling Sangeetha Srinivasan's phenomenal debut subverts received ideas about society individuality and motherhood. <i>Acid</i> unravels the secrets that lurk beneath the surface oif our lives and marks the entry of a searing new voice in the Indian literary landscape.</p>