The Sibius Knot

'You can't possibly have heard of the Sibius Knot. It's the distorted inheritor of the Mobius Strip and you you are but an ant on it. No you don't think so? No you wouldn't.'

Amy Tara and Mario are siblings growing up in the India of the 1990s. Their parents get together split move houses and cities across the plains and hills across continents and seas and the three children have nothing but each other to rely on. Into their lives come friends - LB the Little Bastard Seema Preetha Dan and later Sid Dhruv and Ruchika - and one deadly foe: HH dark shape-shifting threatening the ultimate malevolence. Mario turns his gang into an army and together they fall down the rabbit hole bereft but bound into a world they do not always understand for encounters they do not always seek.

In a crushing story about growing up Amrita Tripathi weaves a magical tapestry: of choices that aren't against fates that are bringing adolescence alive by way of blood semen and sweat and the hallucinatory passages of time that join childhood and adulthood in contemporary India an unsettled place at odds with itself. The Sibius Knot is a blistering novel that is a metaphor for the India of today.