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Somebody Else's Balcony
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Series: Somebody Else's Balcony
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A homemaker waits to see who will hear the pressure cooker whistle. An unemployed man pretends to work at the airport until someone asks him for help. A widow accidentally receives a courier meant for another flat and discovers a life she thought had passed her by. A daughter ignores her father's calls, assuming he needs help with technology, only to learn he was trying to say something far more tender. A child lies for a half ticket on a bus and begins noticing all the other small lies adults use to survive.
Set in familiar Indian homes, apartment buildings, cafés, buses, kitchens, offices, and waiting rooms, these stories explore the invisible emotional lives people carry beneath routine. The book does not chase grand tragedies or dramatic revelations. Instead, it turns toward the smaller disturbances-the misplaced receipt, the unanswered call, the overcooked khichdi, the wrong doorbell, the lunchbox sent to the wrong person-that quietly expose longing, shame, tenderness, loneliness, guilt, and love.
With intimacy, restraint, and sharp observation, Small Incidents asks: how much of a life can change in a moment no one else considers important?
These are stories of people who are not extraordinary, except in the way all people are when seen closely.
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