A Compendium of Supernatural Entities Found in the Government Girls Higher Secondary School - by Kuzhali Manickavel (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

In the oppressive heat of a small Tamil Nadu town, a shadow has fallen over the local secondary school: girls are going missing, and no one has ever returned.

For Thamarai, an outsider considered strange by her peers, life is already a dreary existence. She endures the verbal abuse of her monstrous English teacher, whose flagrant lust for the stunning Yamuna is a public secret. But Thamarai sees something else, something impossible: her classmates are not simply vanishing but dissolving before her very eyes - melting into the humid air and drowning in the classroom's concrete floor.

This terrifying secret unlocks an ability in Thamarai to cross into a surreal dimension. She embarks on a quest to find the missing girls, but the other world demands a price. Each time she travels, a piece of her is left behind, making her less tangible in her own reality. As the teacher's depravity grows more dangerous, Thamarai must unmask two different kinds of monsters before her own body fades away entirely.

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