Tell Me a Story

Rupa Bajwa

Picador India

214 pages, R499

This is the story of Rani, a young Amritsari woman who enjoys her work at a local beauty parlour, loves telling bedtime stories to her little nephew, and is blissfully in love with the movie star Shahrukh Khan. However, her lower middle-class family is struggling to make ends meet and Rani finds herself in Delhi, heading for a collision with a world completely alien to her.