If Betty Smith can say, “the world was hers for the reading,” then obviously it is true for someone whose passion takes the first sip of a book to read and relish. As an introvert in nature, Munmun Samanta (Sam) always finds her secret shade amidst the smell of books and loves to scribble her thoughts in ink and paper. Born in West Bengal, India, by profession she is a teacher of English. Her career as a writer started with college and university magazines and later, she rejoined as a Blogger.

She started writing on her page: Yellow Chrysanthemum and on her blogs: samslibrary.com and phoenixfabulist. In. Her works have been published in various literary magazines and anthologies: “Bridge,” published in November 2020 by Eric Publication celebrates the poets of East and West; “Immortal Inkings’” published by Papermint Books publication captures some of her multilayered thoughts in the framework of poetic invasion. In this anthology “Cosmic Rainbow” by Eric Publication, she contributed ten poems, all of which are entirely individual in approach and impulse like the distinct colors of a Rainbow. But her prior love is navigated in her short stories. Sweetycat Press, a US-based publishing house, published her short stories. And here in this short anthology, “Yellow Chrysanthemum,” she has compiled twenty of her stories that capture the multilayered psychic journey of twenty women, discriminated against and devitalized in every respect by social bigotry. Writing, for her, is not a skill but a source of power, shelter from the vicious onslaught of everyday life. She believes in the magic of words more than anything else. Every story she knitted is a slice of her soul bricked and plastered by her raw emotion.

 

Book Review blog: https://samslibrary.com/

Story Blog: https://phoenixfabulist.in/

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