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Patricia finds her murderer’s resemblance in Sarojini who has just arrived in Delhi for higher studies. While Sarojini fights her new-age challenges, she comes even closer to the ghost through Jalaj who is investigating antecedents of Moon Avenue.

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Sarojini, a twenty-two-year-old girl, is leaving for Delhi to complete her studies. A local train is standing side by side and on one of its glazed window shutters; she catches the outline of a face that resembles her. She is an English lady who came to India in 1935 and was murdered at 99 Moon Avenue, where Sarojini will be staying. A journalist Jalaj, living in the neighborhood is interested in the antecedents of Moon Avenue. The ghost of the murdered woman appears to him and through a series of fantastical tales describes her life during colonial times. She narrates the lives of two sisters, Cornelia and Patricia, and their mutual love Theodore, the architect, who designs Moon Avenue. Theodore is married to Patricia but he falls for Cornelia later and they kill Patricia with a potion. Meanwhile, Sarojini feels an uncanny presence inside the bungalow but she doesn’t see anyone clearly. She feels morbidly lonely in the metro city and fancies that the invisible ghost is giving her company. Sarojini enrolls in a private university. But looking at the exorbitant fee and the facilities provided resorts to protest against the university. During this, she meets Jalaj who writes a report calling out the university. Eventually, they both start dating. Jalaj has an ulterior motive and asks Sarojini to accompany him as it would make him look innocuous with a young woman and can investigate his leads safely. One evening after a date, he hurriedly drops off Sarojini and heads back to his office. After she gets down from his car unknown ruffian attacks and molests her. Jalaj repents his selfishness when he learns about the incident. He asks Patricia’s forgiveness, too, for using them both; the living woman for convenience, and the dead woman for his book. Patricia says she was using him, too. She needed to solve the enigma of her curious existence. She tried hating Sarojini because she looks like the woman who murdered her, but she only feels love for Sarojini’s bruised soul. Sarojini’s ordeal is long. She undergoes multiple surgeries. She finds her calling in the company where she interns. An Anglo-Indian lady named Patricia who has migrated to Canada is visiting for a short-term assignment. She takes a fancy to Sarojini and convinces her to apply to foreign universities. She gets into a Canadian university. She had avoided meeting Jalaj after the attack. Jalaj had stayed away, too. He blamed himself for the incident. Sarojini decides she has to see 99 Moon Avenue before leaving the country. As she goes for it, Jalaj appears from behind and seeks her forgiveness. She accepts his apology but they both understand things would never be the same again. Sarojini says she wishes to walk fearlessly on the street where she was molested. Jalaj tells her to go ahead. Sarojini turns and crosses the street flooded with sapphire moonlight.

Author Bio

Anumita Sharma

"Anumita considers herself a poet, who loves weaving fantastical stories with a whiff of crude reality. Therefore, she writes poetry in prose and prose in poetry. When she isn’t writing, she is reading, which means she does nothing besides reading or writing. She has graduated from Hansraj College, Delhi University, and done a Masters in History from Jawaharlal Nehru University. She also holds a diploma in Journalism and Communication but she’d rather not communicate with anyone if her books can do the talking. She is the author of two English novels; The Curse of Yesterday and Some Very Dignified Disclosures, and a recently published Hindi story-collection by Bharatiya Jnanpith- Kuch Aapbiti Kuch Jagbiti. "