Release Date: October 6, 2026
Available for Pre-Order
a novel by Kuzhali Manickavel
232 pages. 8.25" x 5.5". 300 g
Paperback ISBN: 9788199509146
In the oppressive heat of a small Tamil Nadu town, strange happenings are common. And the local government secondary school is teeming with supernatural entities.
For Thamarai, an outsider considered strange by her peers, life is dreary and frustrating. She endures verbal abuse from her classmates. She despises the way her lecherous English teacher harasses the other girls in her grade. But when Thamarai finds a mysterious notebook full of descriptions of the school's paranormal phenomena, she wonders if it may hold the key to escape...
If you are outside India, consider pre-ordering the international edition from UK publishers Angry Robot.
About the Author
Kuzhali Manickavel was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and currently lives in Bangalore. This is her first novel. More info can be found at www.kuzhalimanickavel.com
Cover design by Saurav Singh
Short fiction collections by Kuzhali Manickavel:
Insects Are Just Like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wings
Things We Found During the Autopsy
Conversations Regarding the Fatalistic Outlook of the Common Man
Zines & chapbooks by Kuzhali Manickavel:
Eating Sugar, Telling Lies (eBook single)
The Lucy Temerlin Institute for Broken Shapeshifters Guide to Starving Boys
How to Love Mathematical Objects
It's My Passion. It's My Style. OK?
You Go Man! Why Me?: How to Interact with Certain Supernatural Beings in Certain Terrible Places