Saturday, October 10, 2020

Reading While Nursing 8 (Early October)

 Jyothsna. If Wishes Were Aeroplanes. Notion Press, 2019.


If Wishes Were Aeroplanes reimagines Jane Austin'e Persuasion in a contemporary Indian setting. It features a feminist heroine, a university lecturer of English literature in a women's college in Delhi, India, and narrates the journey in which she was torn away from, and returns to, her first love over a span of fifteen years.