… to get my next short story (in the Purana Qila Stories collection) published. It has been a steep learning curve, but I’m hitting the ground running now with my third publication. I’m also excited to have returned to writing, and I will take some time to see where my short story collection will turn next. Perhaps a tale of people from a modern-day generation, related to the original characters, who have immigrated far from the family home in India?
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A Deconstructed Heart
When Rehan disappears, Amal’s suffering forces Mirza is to face the world once more. Together, Mirza and Amal must come to a new understanding of what it means to be an immigrant family when the old traditions have unraveled.
A Deconstructed Heart is a novella that explores the breakdown and rebuilding in one immigrant family trying to adapt: how lines in families and cultures are forcibly redrawn, how empty space can be reframed by a tent into a new definition of home… but how, no matter how hard we may try to forget, the past refuses to be contained.
A Change in the Weather
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