A Compendium of Supernatural Entities Found in the Government Girls Higher Secondary School

A boundary-pushing fantasy that blends magical realism with dark academia, perfect for fans of Bunny by Mona Awad and Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth.

"Kuzhali Manickavel is one of my favourite writers, and a completely unique voice. This book is a must!" -- Lavie Tidhar, World Fantasy Award-winning author of Central Station

In the oppressive heat of a small Tamil Nadu town, strange happenings are common. And the local government secondary school is teeming with supernatural entities.

For Thamarai, an outsider considered strange by her peers, life is dreary and frustrating. She endures nosy neighbours and incomprehensible tuition classes. She despises the way her lecherous English teacher harasses the other girls in her grade. But when Thamarai finds a mysterious notebook full of descriptions of the school's paranormal phenomena, she wonders if it may hold the key to escape...

Kuzhali Manickavel's collections Things We Found During the Autopsy, Insects Are Just like You and Me except Some of Them Have Wings, and Conversations Regarding the Fatalistic Outlook of the Common Man, as well as chapbooks and ezines, are all available from Blaft.