About the Book : The Blue Scarf and Other Stories
In The Blue Scarf and Other Stories, we meet young women from small-town India
trying to find themselves in the big cities that they have moved to. Even as
their dreams, desires and ambitions jostle for space in cramped hostel rooms,
work cubicles or dead-end marriages, our protagonists carve out moments of
solace and solitude, sometimes encountering profound moments of clarity and
compassion.
Through life-altering experiences of friendships, heartbreak, humiliation and
loneliness, these short stories unravel the myriad ways in which we turn into
our true selves. Neela Scarf, when it was originally published in 2014, marked
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