A cozy small town

A drizzly summer evening

A fiery precocious girl

A chilling death that makes no sense at all.

 

Fourteen years later, its 1952. Munna Dhingra, a quiet immigrant and the dead girl’s childhood friend, receives an anonymous letter with the words, Why Maya had to Die. And suddenly, her lonely-but-safe world explodes.

 

Munna has been hiding a secret about Maya’s death – a secret she herself doesn’t quite understand. Now, the haunting letter has pushed all her buried disquiet to the surface.  But why now? Why her? Did Munna know something deeper, more consequential, without even being aware of it?  What was her shadowy subconscious trying to tell her?

 

Haunted by guilt and desperate to prevent more deaths, she befriends Karenina – a fiendishly brilliant psychoanalyst with the uncanny ability to unearth dark secrets from the most lighthearted conversations. Together, Munna and Karenina unravel a web of jealousy, betrayal, and forbidden relationships, as they take on the tight-knit town that ferociously guards its veneer of domestic tranquility. With only snippets of gossip and Munna’s broken memories to guide them, they peel back the psychological puzzle of Maya’s death and Munna’s forgetting. But every secret uncovered leads to more questions. Will they ever really find out …Why Maya had to die.

 

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