Darkmotherland Sandie Sonke Batcat loves being all alone

Batcat loves being all alone in their home on Spooky Island

What really happened that night at the lake

It’s a playful and honest examination of the art of storytelling and controlling your own narrative

focusing particularly on the writing

a magnetic coming-of-age story" —Laura Spence-Ash

Darkmotherland Sandie Sonke Batcat loves being all aloneA Dickensian sweep and a vast cast of characters, Upadhyay created an ancient world saturated with the spirit of our time and shaped by political ambition and dark vision . . . A grand novel indeed. Ha Jin, National Book Awardwinning author of Waiting An epic tale of love and political violence set in earthquake ravaged Darkmotherland, a dystopian reimagining of Nepal, from the Whiting Awardwinning author of Arresting God in Kathmandu In