Summary:
The universal and timeless myths and stories, parables and morals that shape and constrict women’s lives, form Meera’s creative backdrop. The Biblical Jezebel, the female protagonist’s namesake, dared to be a strong woman who held on to her pagan beliefs and refused to be beaten into conformity. Flesh to the charactersThe virtues of Meera’s women pale in comparison to their iridescent transgressions, acts which bring them alive even as the author fleshes out their yearnings and desires. There is an evocative insistence on the ritualistic nature of women’s sacrifices, both at the micro and macro levels of societal life. This is a story that gives voice to different inflections of women’s marginality, both in the inner and outer domains of life, thus offering a literary redressal for their silences in myth and history..