The Fire Ant's Sting: Desire Diaries by Kamalini Natesan - Om Books

The Fire Ant's Sting: Desire Diaries by Kamalini Natesan - Om Books

About the Book :The road to perdition is paved with desires An expat couple resort to illicit means to hoard wealth. A small- town author yearns for fame and laurels at the risk of alienating his family.A widowed woman is desperate to preserve her youthful looks and turn the clock back. An eager-to-please, do-gooder mother seeks respect and reciprocation of her efforts.The common thread weaving through these stories is a pulsating and addictive desire to attain what one craves for at any cost. In Fire-Ant’s Sting: Desire Diaries, Kamalini Natesan explores, through twelve varied characters, the different facets of desire—a primal human emotion—and how its pursuit blinds one to reason. Alternately wry and full of pathos, daring and evocative, this is a delectable diary of desires that will leave you asking for more.

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