u/Echosketches

I’m planning to write a coming-of-age story with some metafiction elements and wanted opinions on the idea.

The story starts as a pretty grounded school-life narrative with themes of identity, friendship, social expectations, sports, etc. But later, readers slowly realize that the story they’ve been reading may not be exactly what they thought it was.

There’s also a “book within the story” involved, and the emotional connection between the protagonist and that book becomes very important later on. There are alternate scenes of the protagonist 's actual life and the book he/she is reading with very subtle hints that it may be a book.

I want the reveal to feel emotional and meaningful rather than just a shock twist.

Do readers generally enjoy this kind of layered/metafictional storytelling when it’s character-focused? Or can it become too confusing if not handled carefully?

I and my mother are planning to go to somewhere for an urgent work but we cannot leave my maternal grandmother and my grandfather alone in the house.

And also, we can't leave them in an old age home as the name of ' Old Age Home ' triggers them as they feel we are ignoring or considering them a burden or abandoning them.

What to do? We don't have any helpful relatives.

My mother doesn't want to leave them with an unknown caretaker in the house.

And I and my mother have to go together.

My dadu has parkinson's disease and my Dida is a heart patient with a little dislocated right hand wrist bone though it is healing gradually, she has minor hearing problems too .

We will be gone for 8 days.

Can anyone please tell me where are Indian classical music vocal classes are there in Navi Mumbai particularly looking in ( Vashi, Koparkhairane, Sanpada,Juinagar,Nerul)? Any style is okay- Hindustani or Carnatic.

The classes can be affiliated to a proper institute which can conduct formal exams.