The Girl With Kindle: BOOKREVIEW : You Beneath Your Skin by Damyanti Biswas

Saturday, July 11, 2020

BOOKREVIEW : You Beneath Your Skin by Damyanti Biswas

“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”- Jessamyn West.

Have you ever thought how others will interact with you if your looks get changed or de formed? Yes people do interact differently.

Isnt the title so apt? You Beneath Your Skin?

The story starts with heinous murder in Delhi where a woman was raped and then her face was burned by acid so that no one can identify her. As police gets busy identifying the body and looking for the suspect, the story shift to the protagonist Anjali , a single mother of an autistic child and also a psychiatrist who helps an NGO to rehabilitate victims. As the city sees surge in rapes and acid attacks , Delhi police decides to investigate and look deeper into it until, Anjali becomes victim herself

A serious crime thriller pointing out many ignored issues in our society and one of them is "Parenting". - Neglectful Parenting.The story shows how a neglected children resort to dangerous substances like alcohol, cigarettes or even drugs

A story about extramarital affair, loosing trust on relationship, teenagers facing peer pressure, bad parenting, rape/ acid attack, sex trafficking NGO, and drugs , everything fit like a puzzle in the story. Every chapter shows different shade of human relationship, in their true color. In case of Anjanli, her surrounding environment was different before she was attack and a complete change in relationship took place when she became victim.

Though at times the story seemed slow with all the personal drama, I was craving more for the investigation of the cases. Blame me for reading too much of psychological thriller ,but the "Byomkesh Bakshi in me could sense the culprit at times.