In her first book of poems, science and fiction writer Kamla Dutt shows us the landscapes of longing and memory—the geographies of love, nostalgia, regret and consolation. With extraordinary sensitivity, combining frank emotion with clinical observation, she explores public and private realities: complex family ties; heart-ease and heartbreak; the aftermath of Punjab’s Partition; alienation in the country of one’s birth; the immigrant’s imperfect sense of belonging.As poet and novelist Nirupama Dutt notes in her preface, ‘The reader will roam freely through these pages as if through a familiar garden, moving from one poem to another guided by the quiet strength and wisdom of someone who has truly lived.’
