The Real Life Drama Unveiled by Flavia Agnes in “My Story …….our Story”

The book “My Story……Our Story of Re-Building Broken Lives” penned by respected Flavia Agnes is a real life drama, unraveled with utmost sincerity, each and every moment of the struggle she had to undergo in her marriage. The author portrays with complete earnestness as to how she had to bear with a beast in the shape of a man and the society that preferred to protect always men and to condemn, question and suppress women especially in those days. Irrespective of all these daily doses of trials and tribulations inflicted on her, the battered, confused yet resolute Flavia could move on. It is none other than the love and concern for her children, their lives, their safety and more than everything else, her inability and helplessness to protect herself, sustain herself and her three little children that had urged her to suffer the violence of the abuses her husband inflicted on her physically and mentally. She is really a brave soul who could keep the cane of kerosene away, even during the worst of worse conditions. Just because of her courage and determination she pulled on and succeeded in protecting the lives of her three innocent children and enabled to act as a beacon to many women stranded by violence.

The language used by the author is simple and very touching. A perfect example for this is the description in page 9 where she depicts how her asthma had brought about a crack in the “ frail and fragile, ornamental show piece-marriage and how in course of time it had destroyed the show piece”. 1