Siṃhī: The Becoming

A young lioness loses her mother in the tall grass. A snake tells her stories in the dark. A tortoise carries her on his shell. A mouse stops her mid-hunt with a name she cannot forget.

Across thirteen nested tellings — from the churning of the ocean to the Bhagavad Gītā — she meets grief, fire, injustice, and love, and finds what her mother left inside her. A novel about what a parent gives a child before leaving, and what a story can hold that a single life cannot.

Watership Down meets Siddhartha.

Written and illustrated by Mateo Rose.

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