A Person is a Prayer

SKU: 9780857305893
A Person is a Prayer

A Person is a Prayer

SKU: 9780857305893
Author: Ammar Kalia
C-Format·Ages 18+
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At a glance

🖤 Tone
Reflective, intimate, emotionally layered
⚡ Pace
Slow-burning, character-driven
🌍 Vibes
Family expectations, cultural identity, music and memory, emotional introspection
✨ Themes
Identity, belonging, faith, family, masculinity, self-discovery
🧠 Emotional Journey
Tender, thoughtful, deeply human
📖 Hook
As questions of identity, family, and belonging surface, a young man navigates memory, culture, and emotional inheritance while searching for connection and understanding
💫 Perfect For
Readers who enjoy introspective literary fiction exploring family, identity, and cultural experience

Bedi and Sushma's marriage is arranged. When they first meet, they stumble through a faltering conversation about happiness and hope and agree to go in search of these things together. But even after their children Selena, Tara and Rohan are grown up and have their own families, Bedi and Sushma are still searching.

Years later, the siblings attempt to navigate life without their parents. As they travel to the Ganges to unite their father's ashes with the opaque water, it becomes clear that each of them has inherited the same desire to understand what makes a life happy, the same confusion about this question and the same enduring hope.

A Person is a Prayer plumbs the depths of the spaces between family members and the silence that rushes in like a flood when communication deteriorates. It is about how short a life is and how the choices we make can ripple down generations.

Book details

Format
C-Format
Reading age
18+
Pages
288
Publisher
Oldcastle Books
Published
30 May 2024
Language
English
ISBN
9780857305893

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