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SCAR
TISSUE: 8
lives, 8 young women
Nikhat Grewal
(Ed.)
Rs. 150 Pb 2007
81-88965-33-2
(All rights available)
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Who are the
girls whose stories you will be reading? What do
we have in common? Hopes, dreams, fears, a certain
glint in the eye. Are we different, or are we like
you? Are our stories your story?
The first title in Women Unlimited’s Maiden
Voices series, Scar
Tissue is a moving collection of first-person
stories by young women, speaking candidly and bravely
about their lives. 'When one looks at scar tissue,'
says Nikhat Grewal, the anthology’s editor,
'there is only an essence of the wound that once
was. The healing process has begun and the battle
scars are getting lighter. The stories that one
reads in this book are like that. Like scar tissue,
they are proof that the healing has begun. These
women reveal themselves not by sharing their pain,
but its aftermath. They are not victims, but survivors,
claiming their space and the right to be who they
are. These are women proud of their scar tissue.'
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Nikhat Grewal
is a child psychologist and aspiring fiction writer and traveller. She believes in the power of bed tea, human weakness and lunar eclipses. She currently lives in New Delhi with her turtles, in a flat she sometimes shares with her dog. |
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