If We Gods Could Die For Her - Couverture souple

Bodepudi, Devjani

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9083753239 ISBN 13 : 9789083753232

Editeur : Sunday Mornings at the River, 2026

Synopsis

Two stories mirror each other in this genre-bending collection: a myth in which a fearsome girl is created by the gods to punish and teach humankind, and a mother's fierce, unflinching account of raising a neurodivergent, South Asian daughter in a world quick to call her Other.

The collection moves between scripture and confession. Numbered verses tell of Agni, Brahma and Ma Kali arguing over the fate of a girl born to suffer for the sins of men. Beside them, unpunctuated poems trace a mother pacing a hallway at 2.16am, then 2.17, then 2.18, learning which objects in a house are sharp.

Neither thread offers easy comfort. The girl, Pāro, is not saved so much as she is, eventually, believed. The mother does not resolve her fear so much as she keeps showing up inside it.

This collection moves through self-harm and suicidal ideation, racial and ableist othering, and grief, without resolution or reassurance. Please read with care.

If We Gods Could Die For Her is a love letter and a battle cry, for any mother told her love looks too fierce, and for any child told they were too much, too strange, too frightening to be loved plainly.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sunday Mornings at the River
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9083753239
• ISBN 13: 9789083753232
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 84
• Éditeur: At The River Sunday Mornings
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