The Missing Piece
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When Sukanya finally finds the missing piece that's been calling to her, she must ask: will it fit - and at what price?
London-born Sukanya has grown up dreaming of the ancient mohalla - its narrow lanes, courtyards and the fading Nawabon ki Haveli - her father left behind years ago.
When her grandmother falls ill, Sukanya is finally allowed to return to Bulandwada. Here, she is warmly embraced by people who seem to have forgotten her family's complicated past. Drawn into the intimacy of this world, she begins to believe she may be home at last.
But Bulandwada is more than poetry, history, and belonging - beneath it lie rigid hierarchies and simmering resentments that punish defiance. As Sukanya becomes entangled in the hidden conflicts of the mohalla, she is forced to confront its darker truths.
Extraordinarily compelling, The Missing Piece is a story of reckoning with the cost of inheritance and the uncertain promise of future.
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Parul Sharma is the author of Bringing Up Vasu, By the Watercooler, Tuki's Grand Salon Chase, and 17, Morris Road. She grew up in the small towns of India, absorbing their rhythms, contradictions, and social codes. She later spent two decades in qualitative research, listening to how people narrate their lived experiences. These twin apprenticeships in place and in people inform her fiction, which explores memory, belonging, and the evolving idea of home. Parul lives in Singapore with her family.
