Beautifully written, ‘Nananjutheertha Mazhakal’ explores the intricacies of memories as you feel it; the things that left unsaid, the ambiguities of kept secrets, the tangles of abandoned pasts, and uneasy adjustments being a woman. The author, Deepa Nisanth’s narration itself somehow desires to reclaim dreams left behind, along with something of the dreamer that was lost too. Flawlessly rendered, the characters inhabit a specific place and class - but the stories, told in a certain humour that almost makes you melancholic with a smile rather than cracking open with laughter. But I get it, in life choices are never simple, and for everything kept, something must be abandoned.