Mallika is a painfully shy young woman growing up in the heart of a close-knit, sometimes stifling New Delhi colony.
As irreverent and funny as it is serious and anguished, Fear and Lovely is a tender, character-driven story of love, longing, terror and healing that will keep you turning pages, and won\'t let you go..
As each gives voice to contending with their own struggles, secrets and silences shatter.
For Mallika\'s family, childhood friends and the two men she loves are also hiding truths.
In a narrative that unfolds elliptically from the perspectives of Mallika and the seven people closest to her, the astonishing story of these characters\' intertwining lives emerges.
But she must also hide her mental illness from her community.
After suffering a trauma aged nineteen that causes her to lose three days of her memory and spiral into a deep depression, Mallika must find a way out of the abyss, back to herself and those she cares about.
Though she is surrounded by love, her life is complicated by secrets that she, her mother and her aunt work hard to keep.
Mallika is a painfully shy young woman growing up in the heart of a close-knit, sometimes stifling New Delhi colony
