Misra, however, felt the novel format “has given her the creative freedom to sketch a portrait of the paradoxical nature of life in Kerala, with its deep-seated prejudices and conservatism as well as its beauty”. Janu’s child with special needs from the first marriage and subsequent divorce, and then her marriage to her first love Arjun-are so heavily drawn from the author’s own life that her publishers first wanted to market the book as an autobiography. Janu, the protagonist of her novel, goes through a rigorous rite of passage and finally divorces her uncaring and aloof husband Suresh, whom she agrees to marry only for her parents who handpicked the groom from a respected Maraar family from her native Kerala. Narrated in the first person in flashback, it’s a moving story of one woman’s painful journey of self-discovery. Her debut novel, Ancient Promises, is a thinly-veiled autobiography. She has produced eight novels in her decades-long career, including her bestseller, Ancient Promises.
Detesting “writing between two whistles of a pressure cooker”, Misra set out to build a full-time writing career from the very beginning of her literary journey. She has produced eight novels in her decades-long career, including her bestseller, Ancient Promisesįans of fiction will be delighted to see London-based Indian novelist Jaishree Misra talk about her writing at the 8th edition of Dhaka Lit Fest.
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