Reactor Magazine: “A Compendium of Supernatural Entities Found in the Government Girls Higher Secondary School is one of the most delightful books I’ve read in a minute; Kuzhali Manickavel’s debut novel oozes the sort of rare swagger that one can’t learn, and can only hope to be born with. This is a one-sitting read that has something for everyone: There’s singing and demonic imposter Pepsi and sapphic currents of girlschool drama. The latter brims with fantastically entertaining, at times too-real neurosis—a very familiar neurosis that sparked real joy in me, a survivor of a very different sort of girls school that still speaks a kindred language, because all girls’ schools are different variations of the same coming-of-age horror show. This is a work built on surgically precise deep cuts of teen anthropology, lowkey cosmic horror, encyclopedic Kollywood (Tamil cinema) references, devastating drollness, and perhaps the most universal condition of all: anxiety diarrhea.”
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