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Lavender
Paperback
Publisher: Moaz
Published: Aug 9 2026
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Shankar wanted a son, and was ashamed of wanting it. Then the doctor says the words that will follow his family for the next twenty years: there is a cleft.
Lavender follows Babita from that hospital corridor in Himachal Pradesh through a childhood built, imperfectly, by two parents learning as they go. A father who mistakes protection for control more than once before he learns the difference. A mother who discovers that fear dressed up as care is still fear. Babita grows up watched a beat too long in school yards and family gatherings, and grows, too, a private, exacting eye for color and pattern that no one, least of all Babita herself, recognizes as the beginning of anything.
It takes a hostel mirror, a hallmate's burn scar, and a woman named Neelam who wants only one thing, the choice of when people notice it, for that eye to become a company. What Babita builds is not a promise to disappear. It's the opposite: a business built on the conviction that a face doesn't need fixing to deserve a say in how it's seen, a conviction tested hardest when the money on the table asks her to sell fear instead.
Spanning a Himachal childhood to a Chandigarh startup, Lavender is a family story before it's a business story: about parents who get it wrong before they get it right, a daughter who has to leave home to understand what home actually gave her, and a company named, quietly, for a field of imperfect purple flowers that only look flawless from far away.
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