AVERSION is due to be launched in July 2025 …. and there are some special pre-launch offers
‘Aversion’ is a book about a country renewing and rebuilding itself. The main character is an investigative journalist, initially on assignment in Sri Lanka, where her extended family live. Initially overwhelmed by negative news and the chaos she comes into, she witnesses the country reinventing itself after terror attacks, civil war, natural disaster and economic crisis, and reinvents herself in response, reframing her perspective to appreciate the resilience of the country and even in herself.
SOME READER-RESPONSES
‘Full of dark humor… inspiringly candid…and a wake-up call to everyone who is lulled by the Island breeze’.
‘Devika’s prose has a lyrical quality to it’.
‘The issues written of here are very much what is happening right now. It creates a picture that’s quite mind blowing.’
‘I love your snark and your unflinching honesty. And I love the writing style with its puns and use of stylistic devices. Your use of certain words and your allusions and connections are clever and sharp and sometimes sassily hilarious… Yes, people here need their eyes opened.’
My favourite quote so far is: ‘This book is not going to be everyone’s cup of pure Ceylon Tea.’
I’d like to put that on the cover of the second edition!
The book is available in physical form only through Jam Fruit Tree Publications, and online via the Kobo site. I would not put it on Amazon.
The launch will be in July. At Koluu’s Terrace Restaurant. And Savithri Rodrigo has kindly agreed to be the MC.
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