So we are published. Finally. What started as a musing almost an year ago is now in paperback. Unimaginable. But there are always firsts and this seems to be mine. Always thought I would write books but starting off never seemed this surreal. Here is presenting to the world, the first of many . . . https://www.prateekrao.com/twojourneysonedelusion

Presenting the best of the lot Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman I laughed for the first fifty pages. Then I stopped laughing. Then I realized I was Eleanor. Not the trauma part but the coping part. The routines. The emotional distance dressed up as independence. The way she treats loneliness like a job she’s good at. This book doesn’t scream sadness. It whispers it politely. Like people who show up to office every day with broken hearts and perfect attendance. Eleanor...

A man in tattered pants and a pale blue untucked shirt walks into a swanky, upscale local bakery. The baristas and other workers look at...