Book Review
You Beneath Your Skin by Damyanti Biswas
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| You Beneath Your Skin by Damyanti Biswas |
Author: Damyanti Biswas
ISBN: 978-9386797629
Genre: Crime,
Thriller & Mystery
Length: 390 Pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster India (17
September 2019)
My Ratings: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
My Ratings: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
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About the author:
Damyanti Biswas lives in Singapore, and works with Delhi's
underprivileged children as part of Project Why, a charity that promotes
education and social enhancement in underprivileged communities. Her short
stories have been published in magazines in the US, UK, and Asia, and she helps
edit the Forge Literary Magazine. You can find her on her blog and twitter.
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| Damyanti Biswas |
Follow her on Instagram: @damyantig
Twitter Handle: @damyantig
Visit Damyanti's Blog: https://www.damyantiwrites.com/
REVIEW
Narration
You Beneath Your Skin is a crime-thriller novel that will
keep you on the edge of your seat. The book is a
conglomeration of profound characters and an enthralling plot. The story is
narrated in the third person omniscient point of view. The writing style is just
perfect for this tremendously progressive plot, literally, it won’t leave you
once you start reading this book till the end. There is not a single moment that
had not made a progress, also expositions are perspicuous yet intense.
Theme
Like an exceptional work, You Beneath Your Skin has a lot
going on at the same time. There are so many characters, all are deep-rooted
and powerful, and on top of that, they all have terrifically transformative arcs
throughout the book. It isn’t like a common crime thriller where you will find
a murder or two or a scam, this book is filled with a lot more. For example,
author Damyanti Biswas has addressed autism, acid attacks and their impact, the huge gap between privileged and underprivileged communities especially children, politics, and
how police are being crushed between politicians and their duty towards
citizens. The novel is set in Delhi and the author has extracted every bit of it
and has added it into the book; the police department, medical
institutions, and all other organizations written are well-researched.
Characters:
Also, this book contains a complicated web of relations. So
there is a pair of siblings, Maya and Jatin. Maya lives in Safdarjung Enclave
with Anjali Morgan–her Bhai’s friend from Florida who parted from her
husband, now lives with her son Nikhil, who has ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder). Jatin
Bhatt is Police Commissioner and is married to Drishti with a handsome and
charming son Varun. However, Jatin’s family life is falling apart because of his
affair with Dr. Anjali and the married couple not paying attention to their son who
is not at all who he appears to be, according to Maya. Jatin’s father-in-law is
Commissioner D.M. Mehra. Varun is friends with Vishal, son of Union Home
Secretary Dayal Sisodia, Jatin’s college classmate. Kusum is Jatin’s Assistant Sub – Inspector. Pawan is Maya’s assistant at their Vigil and he has
some family relations with Drishti. These characters play a significant part
in the tremendous plot.
Acid Attacks:
You Beneath Your Skin. Exactly. What would you feel when you
will be robbed of your face, your identity? That intense burning pain of skin
meltdown and the pain that comes with numerous surgeries. There is always a
danger of losing one’s eyes in such attacks. What would that feel to not have
your eyes just because of someone’s feculent mind? What if you were left with
one eye to see your disfigured face and worse, seeing people rejecting you
(from jobs and institutes) because of that transformation? I would feel tired
enough to kill myself not having the motive to continue. But if you have your dear
ones around throughout the process and have a single motto for living your life
or for any person then it becomes your strength. Also, not everyone would have
those chances, not every survivor would have parents by their side because
these survivors are not from a certain range of ages, they’ve been as young as 10
and there are 45 years old also. In those situations, rehabilitation centers for
acid attack survivors are of much support and strength, their initiatives
create opportunities for fighters. They’ll come to see, they are not alone in
this fight.
On that note, the proceeds to the author from this book will go to the
non-profits, Chhanv Foundation and Project WHY.
Let me just mention other issues addressed in the book.
Autism: It is difficult to deal with a child having ASD but this book
have a great message for the people dealing with autistic and not only that,
You Beneath Your Skin shows all the difficulties that come with Autism.
This book also shows the lifestyle of underprivileged people
and what is the value of their lives. And with that, how privileged people
take advantage of them to quench their thirst for wicked pleasures. The book is wrapped with a white cloak of politics which people often pull on to conceal their foul deeds for the sake of reputation.
I will now wrap up this review with these lines. I highly
highly recommend this book to everyone out there reading this. Not just because
of the topics addressed in this book, but also because this is an incredible
work of writing.
Happy Reading!
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