Yukti A. Singh’s debut novel tells a gripping story of a married couple joined by fate, navigating their path to true love. Set in India, it tells a story of contrasts; poverty and affluence; hate and love; confrontation and compromise. It tells a story of different perspectives that two individuals bring into a marriage, loaded with their own notions of true love. Above all, it tells a story of true love that endures the challenges in real, unadulterated and emotional life.
Abhi and Mili come from different strata in a complex Indian society. Each is driven by different emotions and perspectives. The story describes each event in their life from their own perspective, contrasting their reactions and thoughts. It brings to the fore, the gradual process of this couples’ joining of minds. Each stage of life brings guilt, happiness, aggression and accommodation. An amazing and surprising finale leaves the reader breathless.
Yukti describes incisively and intuitively, a compelling story that explores these lives and teaches us that the inherent human values of empathy and respect, which we all have in ourselves, but so easily ignore, are what drive lasting relationships through any challenge that is thrown in our way.
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