About the Book: Maria, Just Maria
Following the death of her grandfather, Maria has stopped speaking - not because
she cant, but because she doesnt want to.
Now in a psychiatric hospital, as she begins the process of reconnecting with
reality, Maria recalls her journey of being just Maria - a girl born into a
Syrian Christian family in Kerala, whose companions were a grandfather who took
her along to wander around the village and its toddy shops, a great-aunt with
dementia who challenged Marias position as the youngest in the family, a dog
with a penchant for philosophy, various long-dead family members including a
great-grandmother with a