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The High Priestess Never Marries
by Sharanya Manivannan
Description:
A Sri Lankan mermaid laments the Arthurian Fisher King; a woman treks to a cliff in the Nilgiris with honey gatherers of the Irula tribe; a painter fears she will lose her sanity if she leaves her marriage and lose her art if she stays faithful within it; one woman marries her goddess; another, sitting in a bar, says to herself, I like my fights dirty, my vodka neat and my romance anachronistic.The women in this collection are choice makers, consequence facers, solitude seekers. They are lovers, vixens, wives to themselves. And their stories are just how that woman in the bar likes it dirty, neat and sexy as smoke.
About The Author
Sharanya Manivannans first book of poetry, Witchcraft, was described in The Straits Times as sensuous and spiritual, delicate and dangerous and as full as the moon reflected in a knife. She was specially commissioned to write and perform a poem at the 2015 Commonwealth Day Observance in London. The High Priestess Never Marries is her first work of fiction.
Skryf Review
Good Read
This book was phenomenal. A collection of short stories written in lyrical prose depicting women in all forms; warriors, lovers, wives, goddesses, mothers, vixens, in all our art forms with the kind of words that wrap themselves around your bones.
The poetic nature of her writing is what was really compelling. Especially because she’s writing about women in the subcontinent, where gender roles are still so rigid and she’s done a brilliant job to extricate females from their cultural archetype in a really sensual and delicate way.
Take a moment to read this incredible work of fiction, its power and beauty will take your breath away, teaching us to live and love on our own terms.