Sati is driven to protect herself and her family, and has embraced mythic and metaphysical options. The society around Sati and Saytan is contracting. The dreamy, stream-of-consciousness narrative moves seamlessly between the two characters as they consider their individual reasons, pains, and growing fears. Their story unfolds at a Bangalorean university in 1999, against a background of liberties and civil rights being stripped away with increasing vigor. Strength of Water tells the interwoven stories of Sati and Satyan, two young adults with a haunting, shared desire: to try on another’s form, and to experience the benefits that come from it. In the end I was left at the edge of a cliff and wanting to know what happened next–a very good thing. The second is a tear in the fabric of the universe and a peek at the mechanics of the world. The first is our inside-the-skull introduction to the two main characters, and the circumstances of their lives. The story is loosely divided into three sections. Strength of Water by Jayaprakash Satyamurthy is a strange, compelling, and disorienting novella about sweeping changes–good, bad, and transcendent.
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