Friday Feature & Northern Lights — Bookmarked by Andrea

Mar 24

Mar 24 Friday Feature & Northern Lights

Thank you Random House for this gifted copy.

I first read Rushdie in one of my college lit classes and immediately fell in love with how he is able to write about humanity in a fairy tale style. 𝗩𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆 is out now, and it is already a best seller!

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗽𝗶𝗰 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝗮 𝗳𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗶𝘁 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀

In the wake of an unimportant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. After witnessing the death of her mother, the grief-stricken Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for a goddess, who begins to speak out of the girl’s mouth. Granting her powers beyond Pampa Kampana’s comprehension, the goddess tells her that she will be instrumental in the rise of a great city called Bisnaga—“victory city”—the wonder of the world.

Over the next 250 years, Pampa Kampana’s life becomes deeply interwoven with Bisnaga’s, from its literal sowing from a bag of magic seeds to its tragic ruination in the most human of ways: the hubris of those in power. Whispering Bisnaga and its citizens into existence, Pampa Kampana attempts to make good on the task that the goddess set for her: to give women equal agency in a patriarchal world. But all stories have a way of getting away from their creator, and Bisnaga is no exception. As years pass, rulers come and go, battles are won and lost, and allegiances shift, the very fabric of Bisnaga becomes an ever more complex tapestry—with Pampa Kampana at its center.

💬 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐋𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬?

AOTD: The only bonus about living in North Dakota is getting to see the Northern Lights each year. Last night was a spectacular show outside of town and they became so bright that you could also watch them from my yard.