Devil’s daughter. It’s a rather unsettling title for a book—a memoir, to be precise—written by a 23-year-old young woman, grappling with the uncertainty called life. She is referring to herself, but also her parentage. And neither cast her in great light. 

In a world that is increasingly becoming polarised, where you can either be black or white, good or evil, Vidhie Mukerjea appears to have unabashedly made the choice. She offers little resistance, because this decision, she says, was never really hers to make. Her “journey to hell and not quite back yet” began in 2015, on the eve of her 18th birthday. “That day, I began to be seen as the child of the devil herself by so many people,” she writes in the introduction to her just released book, published by Westland.