The Weight of a Mango Seed

The Weight of a Mango Seed
Book One of The River of Broken Moons Trilogy
By Anurag Chandel

In a quiet village cradled by the Godavari River, a girl named Avni begins to hear what no one else can — the murmurs of the wind, the sigh of the earth, and the unspoken grief of generations long buried.

At first, she believes it’s madness. But her grandmother, Daadi, the keeper of forgotten tales, knows the truth: Avni has inherited a rare and dangerous gift — the power to remember what the world has chosen to forget.

As Avni learns to listen, she begins to uncover the village’s deepest secrets — bones hidden under mango trees, prayers whispered in fear, and a history rewritten in silence. But remembrance has a cost. The more Avni hears, the heavier the burden becomes, until she must decide whether truth itself is worth the price of peace.

Set against monsoon skies, flickering oil lamps, and the hum of ancient rituals, The Weight of a Mango Seed is a lyrical, haunting exploration of memory, inheritance, and the invisible threads that bind us to our ancestors.

It’s a story where:
🌿 The river keeps secrets the villagers dare not name.
🔥 Silence is inherited like blood.
🌕 And a single mango seed carries the weight of truth itself.

This is not just the beginning of a story — it is the awakening of a legacy.

As Avni’s gift grows, so too does her calling — a calling that will one day draw her far beyond the village, into a city that hungers for forgetting.

For every truth remembered, another must rise from the shadows.

✨ The Weight of a Mango Seed is Book One of The River of Broken Moons Trilogy — a sweeping, emotional saga of silence, inheritance, and remembrance that unfolds across three hauntingly beautiful novels:

1. Book One – The Weight of a Mango Seed: A village girl awakens to the burden of memory.

2. Book Two – The City of Hungry Shadows (Coming Soon): Avni must carry remembrance into a world that no longer listens.

3. Book Three – The River of Broken Moons (Finale): When silence and truth finally meet, what remains will change everything.

Written in lush, cinematic prose, this debut novel will stay with you long after the last page — whispering like the wind through the banyan leaves, reminding you that some memories refuse to die.

If you’ve ever stood beside a river and felt it was speaking to you…
If you’ve ever sensed that your ancestors are watching through the rain…
If you believe that silence remembers, -then this story is for you.

💧 Every seed carries a story.
💧 Every story carries a weight.
💧 And some truths must be remembered, even if they break the world.