Description
Immerse yourself in an exquisitely composed, elegant contemporary novel that interrogates the quiet architecture of modern love, displacement, and the conscious construction of home. The elegant narrative follows Asya and Manu, a young expat couple searching for an apartment to purchase in an unnamed, foreign European city they have chosen to call home. Stripped away from the familiar net of family structures and cultural expectations, they must actively figure out what personal traditions, rituals, and definitions of family they want to anchor their lives.
While Manu manages his daily career, Asya, a documentarian, spends her hours recording everyday interactions in a local park, observing neighbors like an anthropologist trying to unearth how people establish comfort and belonging. Simultaneously, their domestic reality is constantly pulled by telephone updates from home where aging parents and growing relatives exist just slightly out of physical reach. Unfolding gracefully across apartment walk-throughs, kitchen chats, and late-night drinks, this soulful narrative explores what we choose to keep or let go of as we build our lives. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8].
