If I had to reduce Karadi Tales' differentiator to one idea, it would be this: authentic Indian storytelling with global craft, and very particularly, our audio storytelling.
Satrapi was not merely a writer. For many readers of my generation and even today, she has been proof that art could survive catastrophe.
My children (who are at the ‘magic elementary’ age) loved it. They responded to the action, the humor, and the emotional points. As a parent, I appreciate that there were no themes too mature for an eight-year-old, cartoon violence aside.
Rejection is not your regular book. Very soon into it, you’d be presented with a coltish gaze by the author, checking your audacity of going deeper in the book.
My challenge lay in shifting the reader’s focus from the physical to the metaphysical journey and moving their cognition from visceral and visual to one that is markedly less so.