Dustria is a speculative fiction novel

Dustria, my debut fantasy, is out now! Order from your favourite retailers. Happy reading!

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Dark, disturbing and beautiful.

Peter Cox, Litopia

About Dustria

Sula, a gifted, young surgeon, makes a terrible mistake, and flees to Dustria, a land of monsters and broken things, to punish herself. But she doesn’t really learn from her mistakes until she is presented with a situation where she must choose between confronting her past or continuing down an unexamined path. Dustria is for the questioning reader, examining themes in unrequited love, substance abuse, sexual diversity, and enduring friendships.

It’s set against the backdrop of a constant exploration of the question: Can we redeem ourselves from terrible mistakes made in our younger years or do we, sometimes, need to find alternate ways to frame our lives in order to grow as individuals and forgive ourselves?

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About the Author

Madhurika Sankar is an impact investor and writer whose work appears in The Hindu, India’s leading national newspaper, in the Op Ed. She’s an engineer and holds a Masters in Biotechnology from Columbia University, New York.

Madhurika’s short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in literary journals and magazines such as The Bangalore Review, Litro Magazine, Rock & Sling, The Avenue, The Bombay Review, The Dillydoun Review, Tether’s End Magazine, Visible Magazine, Firewords Magazine and the Landing Zone Magazine.

Her debut novel Dustria, a fantasy, was released in Fall 2024 from Canadian publisher of speculative fiction, Vraeyda Literary. She lives in Chennai, India.

The book was written for, read by, and now in memory of my beloved father, N Sankar.

The author would be delighted if you delve into the World of Dustria, and take the precious time to leave a review on these platforms. Thank you!

Published Short Works (Fiction & Nonfiction)

20/10/2021

Neptune’s Storm in Litro journal

When I was a little girl, my father would take the family to the hills in the summer as an escape from our perpetually sweltering nook of the world. Kodaikanal. That’s the name of the hill town in which we’d vacation.
20/10/2021

Juxtaposition country in Rock and Sling journal'

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