Scroll. in reviewed Amal Singh's novel 'Slow Burn', a portal fantasy about Rishi Tripathi, a 27-year-old struggling actor in Mumbai who falls through a bedroom mirror into a parallel world.
The story reflects pressures many readers recognise: chasing unstable careers in big cities while families wait at home. Rishi's journey from Varanasi to Mumbai mirrors the trade-offs between security and personal dreams.
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