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Breaking the shackles imposed by a patriarchal society and an equally patriarchal religion is a colossal task for a woman. The novel ‘Othappu’ by Sarah Joseph eloquently portrays the travails of a woman in fighting against a society that looks askance at the doubters. Reading Sarah Joseph will help one to creep across the typical Malayali Christian convictions where we can find the private struggles of women and their veiled emotional insurgencies. Sarah Joseph, being born into a conservative Christian Catholic family, helps the reader to experience these struggles from a distinctly interior perspective.