{"product_id":"9781415207451","title":"What About Meera","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat About Meera tells the tale of Meera Narain, a twenty-two-year-old woman from Durban who escapes her abusive arranged marriage to run away to Dublin, where she takes up a job as a care-giver at a school for autistic children. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter years of abuse at the hands of her doctor husband, Meera's fractured and damaged psyche sends her spiralling into a doomed relationship with Ian Gallagher, the father of one of her autistic patients. The obsessive affair uncovers frightening truths about Meera's childhood on a farm in rural KwaZulu-Natal, setting her on a destructive path of alcoholism and hallucinations. It is in this dangerous state that Meera commits a horrifying act and is ostracised from the world where she thought she would find happiness. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePulsating with life and colour and a considerable amount of black humour, What About Meera is the gripping story of a woman's attempts to rise above her circumstances and take control of her fate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Z.P+Dala\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eZ.P Dala\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Z.P Dala","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47375537537187,"sku":"9781415207451","price":200.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781415207451_71b52e71-ed01-4920-818c-98fc1113fcd8.jpg?v=1776531410","url":"https:\/\/graffitibooks.co.za\/products\/9781415207451","provider":"Graffiti Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}