A review by starryeyedenigma
Leila by Prayaag Akbar

3.0

This first Indian authored dystopian fiction that I read, based on a recommendation from a book tuber. The story is straight forward and simply written. It is about a mother who sees her life tumble down as extreme caste politics takes over everything and destroys freedom and equality as we know it today. And in between all this, a mother loses her three year old daughter and spends sixteen years looking for her. The whole story is dark and really depressing. I couldn’t grasp the ending that well either, it is quite open ended and leaves a lot for discussion and debate. This is going to be made into a Netflix series so I’m interested to see how the series turns out to be.
But overall, this was a little too dark and depressing for me.