As part of our
#diverseauthorday Greenacre Writers want to continue the trend and will be
posting interesting books and linking to book reviewers. This one is just in time for #DiverseDecember.
Susmita Bhattacharya was born in Bombay, India in 1974. Addicted to writing from a
young age she has published short stories in magazines such as Blue Tattoo and
Planet and Poetry in Roundyhouse and Anterliwt. Her novel The Normal State of Mind deals with difficult subject matter of life in contemporary India. Susmita
also has a blog on Her Writing Life.
The
following quote is from a review written by Mahsuda Snaith for Jaggery Lit.
“Susmita
Bhattacharya’s debut, The Normal State of Mind, is not your typical novel. Here is a
book dealing with big subject matters—the limitations placed upon widowed
women, the illegality of homosexuality in contemporary India, for example— that
is also written with a lightness and fluidity that would rival any bestselling
chick lit.
This is a
book that deals with, what some might find, shocking subjects but does not aim
to shock itself. It is a depiction of the ordinary lives of women dealing with
an abnormal hostility for the lives they should be free to lead.”
Mahsuda Snaith, as well as an avid reader, is also an enthusiastic writer of short
stories and plays and has written a novel called Ravine. A winner of various competitions such as the
Bristol Short Story Prize 2014 and the Mslexia Novel Competition 2013, Mahsuda
also finds time to review books for magazines such as Jaggery Lit.
You can follow Susmita Bhattacharya on Twitter: @Susmitatweets
You can follow Mahsuda Snaith on Twitter: @mahsudasnaith
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