Faces in the water
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Fifteen-year-old Gurmi comes from a household that has long boasted of having only sons. The family credits a magical well on their farm for this good fortune. When Gurmi sets out to find the well, he looks into its water and sees the faces of three girls looking back at him. They draw him into a playful world of games and cyber magic, but they also force him to confront a truth as murky as the water itself.
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Gurmi begins to wonder what terrible acts have been hidden inside the sprawling family home, and whether he and the girls can uncover them and stop another tragedy. The novel is about the lives sacrificed to a society's relentless demand for sons, and about the price families pay for it.
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