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Amber Khindri Biswas
AAI AND I by Mamta Nainy Pickle Yolk books, 2021, 32 pp., 350.00
November 2022, volume 46, No 11

This story is about a girl named Aadya, and how her life changed after her mother was diagnosed with cancer. When Aadya’s mother leaves her with her grandmother and the dog called Nimki to get her treatment, Aadya feels lonely and sad. She misses her mother all the time. She waits and waits, and is sometimes scared, wondering if her mother would come back or not. When her mother finally returns, she can sense that a lot had changed. So the story portrays the beautiful relationship of a child with her mother, who is in her healing phase.

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