Neelam's Book Blog

The Girl Who Owned a City Author: O.T.Nelson Pages: 216  ‘The Girl Who Owned a City’ by O.T. Nelson is a post-apocalyptic novel set in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. A dangerous virus has swept across the world and the only people who are not infected by this virus are kids who are 12 years old or younger. This has left the children all alone in a world without adults and they are having a difficult time with limited resources (limited food, no medicines) and to overcome the problem of limited resources some children have formed gangs and rob other children. The book revolves around Lisa and her brother Todd who are coping with the loss of their parents and are trying to overcome the shortage of food. There is no electricity supply, no hospitals and no means of transport. Hence, children are finding it difficult searching for food and day to day supplies like toothpaste, soap, etc. But our, protagonist Lisa is trying to overcome the problem and leaves every day in search

Mango People in Banana Republic Author: Vishak Shakti Pages:   237 Mango People in Banana Republic is a story about Ravi Bhalerao who works as a Strategy Consultant with of the bigger firm and is suffering from fistula. He is not satisfied with his job and feels that his life is lacking purpose and with this feeling he decides to leave his job and leave in search of the purpose which will give his life a purpose and satisfaction of doing something that will give his life a satisfaction of doing something purposeful instead of doing the same work every day.   In this hope he leaves everything behind and travels to various places finally landing in his home town where is touched by the life that the poor farmers are leading and he is driven to do something for them and help them to better their lives. In trying to help the farmers an event occurs which shouldn’t have occurred which leads him to cross paths with various activists, political parties, Maoists, Communists