The Worlds Within You

The Worlds Within You tells the story of Ami Shekar who has decided to take a break from her first year of university in the UK and return to her home in Chennai. Ami is stuck and finds herself fretting overthinking and retreating into her own head. But she knows that whatever it is that makes her feel weird all the time must have a name to it. And so Ami is back home to come to terms with many things her mental health her own identity memories of her grandfather and finally herself.Set over the course of seven writing classes this is an unconventional and melancholic take on what it means to be alive and finding your own emotional support system-no matter how flawed the people within your system might be. Review Sensitive observant and honestThe Worlds Within You is a touching debut from a young writer to watch -- Anjali JosephMoving and elegiac a first novel with a fine old heart -- Siddharth Dhanvant ShanghviA wonderfully-written clear-eyed novel about growing up learning to live with yourself your family and your memories. Moving funny and incredibly real -- Shabnam MinwallaTender and deceptively simpleThe Worlds Within You is microscopically observed and at the same time has that quality of universality that sets apart good literature from merely passable literature. This may not be a unique novel in terms of plot or ideas but a good writer-a title Shreya Ramachandran has earned with this book-can make even the most quotidian subject matter interesting and affecting -- Roshan Ali About the Author Shreya Ramachandran grew up in Chennai and studied South Asian literature and history. She writes about mental health on her blog and her work has also appeared inThe Hindu theSwaddle andSpark magazine. She currently lives in Mumbai with an indie dog who behaves part cat. This is her first novel.