After writing the tales featuring girls with different life experiences in “Sick of Being Healthy” and “Dying to Live’, Monisha K Gumber comes back with another contrasting and yet strong content in her book, “Dolly Won’t Play”. By featuring the earlier protagonists, Tara and Megha in this story, it kind of gets the required unification for a “Teenage Trilogy”. Gumber has a flavour for playing with words and creating paradoxical titles and they make more relevance when viewed in the light of the protagonists they feature.
Teenage years are very critical in the life of a person and the events and experiences of that time have a strong impact on them. This is one of the points that the author harps on in almost all her texts. But what makes her work more interesting is the exploration of one of the many problems that she chooses and explores in the framework of the plot.
Gumber explores the profound impact a sexual abuse can have on a girl’s life and how it can affect the person’s relationships in the future. The book is a short read written in free verse but the lesser words the author has used have had a stronger and more powerful impact. All readers, young and old, should read this.
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