Rusty Comes Home

Rusty returns home from London to settle while carrying out his writings. His beloved hills and the country has in store for him several interesting adventures that he narrates to his readers. He yearns to return to his hometown to see how the cosy nooks have changed. In the process he meets several characters like a disabled child, a poor and frail boy, ladies from the hills, the eccentrically evil uncle, the boy who leaves with his family in his old house, a jinn who can extend his arms as long as he wishes. Behind the curtains, the author weaves some wonderful tales of pathos tinged with humour where the losses are depicted such impersonally that the readers will feel the melancholy mood yet will stay captivated by the lucid flow of words. There is an instance where the author narrates the tale of a tiger to a young lad while asking him to complete after he stops. The most invigorating part is, the author weaves the story with several reliefs in between that too are so gripping yet he disallows the central plot to be shifted at all. He leaves the story with a hint towards its finish. But the listener makes an optimistic twist literally keeping the life of the story still beating as it completes. Filled with several such awesome stories the book is made even more lively by the illustrations of Archana Sreenivasan. Breathing puffs of fresh air the book will complete with a longing for more.