New Book Release of The High Priestess Never Marries by Sharanya Manivannan

A Sri Lankan mermaid laments the Arthurian Fisher King; a woman treks to a cliff in the Nilgiris with honey gatherers of the Irula tribe; a painter fears she will lose her sanity if she leaves her marriage and lose her art if she stays faithful within it; one woman marries her goddess; another, sitting in a bar, says to herself, ?I like my fights dirty, my vodka neat and my romance anachronistic.? The women in this collection are choice makers, consequence facers, solitude seekers. They are lovers, vixens, wives to themselves. And their stories are just how that woman in the bar likes it ? dirty, neat and sexy as smoke.

About The Author:
Sharanya Manivannan\'s first book of poems, Witchcraft (Bullfighter Books, 2008), was described in The Straits Times, Singapore, as ?sensuous and spiritual, delicate and dangerous and as full as the moon reflected in a knife?. She was specially commissioned to write and perform a poem at the 2015 Commonwealth Day Observance at Westminster Abbey, London, to an audience which included the British royal family. She has received a Lavanya Sankaran Fellowship and an ELLE Fiction Award, and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice.

The High Priestess Never Marries (HarperCollins India, 2016) is her first work of fiction.
Her picture book for children, The Ammuchi Puchi (illustrated by Nerina Canzi), has also just been released by Lantana Publishing, UK. Her next book of poems, The Altar Of The Only World, is forthcoming from HarperCollins India in 2017. She is currently working on a novel, Constellation of Scars, and an untitled graphic novel.

Sharanya writes a weekly column, The Venus Flytrap, for The New Indian Express. Born in 1985, she grew up in Sri Lanka and Malaysia, and now lives in Chennai, India.

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