Book Review : Starry Starry Night
Author:Nandita Basu
Publisher: Penguin Random House India
Genre: Children & Young Adult
Format: Paperback/Kindle
Print length: 168 pages
Rating:4/5
Starry Starry Nights by Nandita Basu is a comic-style story-telling novel. It holds a deep message with beautiful artwork and story.
Book Blurb On Amazon
After Kunal's mother dies, he is sent off to a boarding school in the hills. Till he has a hostel room, he stays with Tara, his father's cousin, who teaches a special music programme in the school.
Teaching music helped Tara after her best friend died-- that, and perhaps the company of the enigmatic figure known as Death, whom she sees everywhere.
Tara and Kunal must try to live together, their lives entwined by their separate losses-- which neither is comfortable talking about.
This is a tale of love and loss, of the healing and illuminating power of friendship, art and music.
Review
Starry Starry Night is a story of love, loss, and healing. With the passage of time, the story twists toward the comeback of music, art, and friendship in the lives of main characters.
The plot of the story is well-maintained. Readers will love the storyline, along with descriptive artwork. The story revolves around two central characters who undergo their journeys of love, loss, and grief. One lost her friend, and the other lost his mother. The sketches in this book, with damped colors and dreamlike appearances, flawlessly capture the emotional background of the story.
The character sketch of each individual in this story turns detailed, unfolding their past and connections with the one they lost. Each character follows the same trait of feelings yet with a unique style. The author beautifully painted their emotions, like the one expressed with anger and confusion, while the other depicted the soul under introspection and longing for peace.
This book stands out due to its beautiful portrayal of grief. The author ensures to express loss with a pinch of humor, hope, teasing, and the notoriousness and wickedness of school kids. There was an incident where a kid, out of his ego, ruined the career of the main female character in the story. To find out how you have to pick this book.
Multiple quotes in this book are touchy and profound. Readers of a young age may not resonate with them as it talks about serious topics like life and death. Readers might fail to follow the sequence of dialogues in a few places, but there is always going back when they read beautiful stories.
Moreover, readers will like this book for its engaging and connecting story. At some point in life, we often lose loved ones. If not to death, we get separated from them due to circumstances. So, the author's straightforward narration of life and death with everything in between will allow readers to express their emotions while reading this book, including laughing, crying, grieving, hoping, and showing tears of joy.
I bet readers will pick this book because of its cover. Somebody said, "Don't judge a book by its cover." But the cover of this book is tempting to get added to every reader's TBR.
Buy it from Amazon - Starry Starry Night
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