Book:
A Starfish Forgets Its Sea
Author:
Anish Francis
Publisher:
Self Published
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Starfish Forgets its Sea by Anish Francis is a
collection of 1 novelette and 2 short stories. The first story, A Starfish Forgets its Sea is the story
of Geevarghese Christuraj, who is cooped up in a mental institution. He says
that he is the only sane person in there and that at every checkup he pleads
the doctors to let him go. Since his pleas were going unheard, he decides to
make a run for it. What happens after that forms the novelette. The second
story in the book is The Blue Planet of
the Red Starfish. This story deals with the underlying theme of schizophrenia
and how that can affect a person as a whole. The third and the last story in
the book is Blue Eyed Strangers which
is a short story about a doctor and a patient who has problem sleeping and
comes to him for help. Curious about his actions, he decides to tail him and is
shocked by what happens afterwards.
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Starfish Forgets its Sea by Anish Francis carries
the undercurrent theme of mental illness in all the 3 stories that we read in
the book. Each of the story takes up a different concept and builds up on it. The
storytelling is nice and I enjoyed reading the book. The chapter numbers in the
novelette are a bit confusing and I would have preferred a note in the
beginning of the story clarifying the same.
The book manages to take away 3/5 from me.
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