Interleaves

Interleaves is a paean to the transformative potential of catastrophic life changes. It records the twin journeys initiated in lata Mani’s life in the wake of a head injury she sustained in 1993: her baptism of fire into disability and her spontaneous awakening to Devi, the Divine Mother, in contect of this crisis. Through contemplative writing, poetry and cultural criticism of the way society perceives illness, Mani invites the reader to join her as she witnesses, honors, grieves and celebrates her experience, and in the process radically revises her prior sense of the very meaning, purpose and promise of life.