NOTES FROM COLLEGE

MYSTERY, magic, friendship, secrets and even an intriguing water spirit. One could say writer-poet Megha Rao's recently-released book Our Bones in Your Throat has everything one needs in a coming-of-age novel set in the hallowed halls of a college campus.

- POOJA DAS

"The book has elements of magical realism, and it revolves around two young women who become friends in an unconventional way in college. They realise there's so much politics and it's hard for them to tackle that, so they team up. But in the midst of all this, there is also a water spirit and a rumour leads them to a forbidden part of the campus where they start realising things are not what they seem," shares Rao, who hails from Kerala.

The book centres around the friendship between Esai and Scheherazade, who are obsessed to find the truth OUR BONE IN behind the YOU drowned woman haunting St Margaret's..