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About the book
What Meera Never Sent is a novel built around absence — the letters a woman writes but never sends, and the years those unsent words come to stand in for. Moving between continents and generations, it follows a family shaped as much by what was withheld as by what was said.
At its centre is a story about fatherhood, cultural memory, and the particular ache of raising a child far from the place that raised you. It is Joseph Sebastian's most personal book to date, drawing on his own life across Kerala, Britain, and Australia.
Details
Literary fiction · Full-length novel · Manuscript complete
"Some letters are written to be read. Others are written simply to be written — proof, if only to the writer, that the feeling existed at all."