Dehradun, May 9 -- Book Review

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Rootless and Restless:

A Woman's Search for Meaningful Adventure in Distant Places

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On a moonlit night, a young woman walks alongside three new friends, upon a Caribbean beach where green turtles usually waddle ashore to lay their eggs on the same land they had once hatched in. The white sand below unexpectedly gives way to a pervasive brownish grass which the four humans identify as algae. Algae has begun to infest this beach over the years; fewer and fewer turtles are coming to shore.

The woman in our book is author Shivya Nath. This chapter is 'Under the Ocean' and is about Cuba in 2018. On her first morning in Cocodrilo (Spanish for crocodile), Shivya had dived into a stunn...