Alokita Sharma

Dying at 19 Alokita Sharma

This novel is a biographical account of a girl Tullika and is narrated by her friend Meghna. The events occurring are from the last year of her school to first year of college. However, what transpires in Tullika's life over this period is the essence of the novel. The novel is not an account of a particular college or school. It is a simple story of change and what happens when that change is not favorable to a person. How uprooted and confounded a person becomes when he /she moves from a well known environment to a sheer different world. Tullika can represent one such person who made the wrong choices and how her choices not only affected her but all the people who were close to her. Meghna is one such person and she narrates the story which deals with the pain after she lost a dear one and also how she feels reponsible for her death.