The Body Myth: A Novel

The Body Myth: A Novel

by Rheea Mukherjee
The Body Myth: A Novel

The Body Myth: A Novel

by Rheea Mukherjee

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Overview

Mira is a teacher living in the heart of Suryam, a modern, bustling city in India and the only place in the world the fickle Rasagura fruit grows. Mira lives alone and with only the French existentialists as companions, until the day she witnesses a beautiful woman having a seizure in the park. Mira runs to help her but is cautious, for she could have sworn the woman looked around to see if anyone was watching right before the seizure began.

Mira is quickly drawn into the lives of this mysterious woman, Sara, who suffers myriad unexplained illnesses, and her kind, intensely supportive husband, Rahil, striking up intimate, volatile, and fragile friendships with each of them that quickly become something more.

Intoxicated by their attention and eager to unravel the mystery of Sara's illness, Mira wonders if Sara is unwell. Is she faking it for attention? Is it a psychological disorder? Or is Rahil making Sara sick to keep her wings clipped?

A moving exploration of loss, Mukherjee delivers an intense and unexpected modern love story as Mira reconciles reality with desire.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781982624989
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Publication date: 02/26/2019
Edition description: Unabridged
Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 5.70(h) x (d)

About the Author

Rheea Mukherjee received her MFA degree from California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Her fiction and nonfiction has been published in several publications including Scroll.in, Southern Humanities Review, Out of Print, QLRS, and Bengal Lights, among others. Her first book, a collection of short stories about contemporary urban life in India titled Transit for Beginners, was published in Asia in 2016. Her previous stories have been Pushcart nominees, Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Finalists, and semifinalists for the Black Lawrence Press Award. She spent her childhood in the United States and her teens in India and returned to the United States for college and her MFA, before returning to Bangalore, India. She cofounded Bangalore Writers Workshop in 2012 and co-runs Write Leela Write, a design and content laboratory in Bangalore.


Soneela Nankani, an Earphones Award-winning narrator, is a classically trained actress, voice-over artist, and singer who has had roles in film and on television. She has worked with the award-winning Sojourn Theatre, Classical Theatre of Harlem, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and the Kansas City Repertory Theatre.

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