A Hundred Little Flames

A Hundred Little Flames – by Preeti Shenoy is a novel about a young man’s journey of self-discovery and the inter-generational relationship he develops with his estranged grandfather in a small village in Kerala. The story follows 26-year-old Ayan, a young man working in Pune whose life takes an unexpected turn after an incident at an office party forces him to resign. His domineering father, Jairaj, decides to send him to live with his grumpy old grandfather, Gopal Shanker, in the idyllic, internet-free village of Poongavanam, Kerala, with the intention of later putting the grandfather in a mental asylum to sell the ancestral property.