Game of Stars (Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond #2) by Sayantani Dasgupta

Game of Stars (Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond #2) by Sayantani Dasgupta

When the Demon Queen shows up in her bedroom, smelling of acid and surrounded by evil-looking bees, twelve-year-old Kiranmala is uninterested. After all, it's been weeks since she last heard from her friends in the Kingdom Beyond, the alternate dimension where she was born as an Indian princess. But after a call to action over an interdimensional television station and a visit with some all-seeing birds, Kiran decides that she has to once again return to her homeland, where society is fraying, a terrible game show reigns supreme, and friends and foes alike are in danger. Everyone is running scared or imprisoned following the enactment of sudden and unfair rules of law.

However, things are a lot less clear than the last time she was in the Kingdom Beyond. Kiran must once again solve riddles and battle her evil Serpent King father -- all while figuring out who her true friends are, and what it really means to be a hero.

Sayantani Dasgupta, who was born in Kolkata and raised in New Delhi, is a professor at the University of Idaho. Her writings and stories have published in publications such as The Rumpus, Phoebe, and Gulf Stream, among others. She edits nonfiction for Crab Creek Review and has received Pushcart Prize Special Mention and a Centrum Fellowship in the past. Sayantani examines her personal experience against the history, religion, popular culture, and mythology of South Asia and her current home in the American West in her debut collection of essays, Fire Girl. Visit www.sdasgupta.com to learn more about Sayantani.