Description

Ten legends. Ten new stories. One river running through all of them.

Folk Tales from Bengal takes the region’s most beloved folklore — the devoted bride who bargains with a goddess, the girl whose stolen credit finally comes home to her, the sister who restores seven brothers turned to flowering trees, the ghost still tending a kitchen decades after her death, the boy saved by the guardian of the Sundarbans — and reimagines each one as an original short story, with its own characters, its own voice, and its own ending.

These are not retellings. Each story borrows only the emotional heart of a real Bengali legend — a vow kept past reason, a truth buried and unearthed, a family broken and painstakingly rebuilt — and builds something new around it. A companion Author’s Note names all ten source legends for readers who want to go looking for the originals.

Warm, simple, and deeply human, this collection is for readers who love folklore, strong women who refuse to be written out of their own stories, and the particular magic of a story that feels both ancient and entirely new.