Bhupati -- The Vetala's Song -- Dreams of Drowning Girls -- In the Bone Fields -- Remembrance -- Milk -- Cherry Blossom Fever -- One, Two, Buckle my shoe -- Stories in the Language of the Fist -- Night Zoo -- Arvind -- Chitra (Or: A Meteor Hit the Mall and Chitra Danced in the Flames) -- Midnight at the Oasis -- A Cure for Fear of Screaming -- Chrysalis.

"Genre-blending stories of transformation and belonging that centre women of colour and explore queerness, family, and community. A couple in a crumbling marriage faces divine intervention. A woman dies in her dreams again and again until she finds salvation in an unexpected source. A teenage misfit discovers a darkness lurking just beyond the borders of her suburban home. The stories in Chrysalis, Anuja Varghese's debut collection, are by turns poignant and chilling, blurring the lines between the monstrous and the mundane. Poetic, sensual, and surreal, Varghese's stories delve into complex intersections of family, community, sexuality, and cultural expectation through an unapologetically feminist lens. Drawing on folklore, fairy tale, and magical realism, they take aim at the ways in which racialized women are robbed of power and revel in the strange and dangerous journeys they undertake to reclaim it."-- Provided by publisher.