The High Priestess Never Marries: Stories of Love and Consequence

Download or read book The High Priestess Never Marries: Stories of Love and Consequence written by Sharanya Manivannan and published by HarperCollins India. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.