India, June 8 -- With three interlinked narratives Kajoli Khanna's Destiny's Flowers is all about dealing with personal battles, both big and small, and coming to terms with the challenges life throws at us. The book opens with Mila, an art restorer who is reeling from the after effects of a violent attack while working on a prospective project at the beautiful Fort of Joji that's shrouded in mystery. The grounds of the fort themselves become a locus of much of what the book tries to encompass in its 280-page narrative. Mila's encounters with the storytellers, one of whom leads her around the fort and through the wings of the Palace Full of Pearls and tells her that the "flowers of destiny" have brought her to Joji, Mumtaz's journal that details the lives of earlier women inhabitants of the fort, and the stories that come to be told through the artworks all represent the ways in which the author makes manifest the various ways of retaining memories. They also bring out the distinctness of varied perspectives....