Lovers And The Leavers

'...before you eat there is love. It comes even before your hunger.'

In twelve linked stories the characters in The Lovers and the Leavers intersect and drift apart across several years and continents.

Komola a maid in a quiet mansion in Dhaka begins a doomed relationship with a handsome mysterious man. Her nephew a gifted little boy in her village nurses a terrible secret and his mother flees ending up by the sea in Chennai.

At the other end of the world a Bangladeshi-American woman Rox lusts after a teenager while her best friend the rebellious Ila must choose between love and tradition.

Artfully woven with poems and photographs these stories move between India Bangladesh America and Europe. A haunting lyrical collection The Lovers and the Leavers announces the arrival of a formidable talent.