"The problem with circular stories is that it is difficult to know where to begin. This story is circular, although no one told me that when I first entered it. A part of me wishes that they had; perhaps then I would have never travelled through it,” is how Tashan Mehta begins her novel Mad Sisters of Esi.
This is a work of fantasy, of "fables, dreams and myths… featuring a museum of collective memory and a festival of madness,” reads the blurb on the rear cover. There are far too many characters: sisters Mayung and Laleh who are keepers of......