by Tuljha B. Reddy (Author)
Some stories are told. Some are shaped by silence. Meet Alamer - taught to love without ownership, but forced to confront the cost of desire. Preetha is navigating abandonment, rage, and quiet reinvention. Kedari, dazzling and desired, aches for a love that sees beyond her body. A wife who believed she could love two men at once. A girl convinced that a brief affair with a wealthy married man would come without consequence. Each story peels back the polished surface of so-called acceptable womanhood to reveal hunger, contradiction, and defiance. These are stories of women who falter, want too much, stay too long, or walk away too late. And yet, in their choices lies a radical truth: a woman's life is a narrative she owns. Set against the shifting moralities of time, these stories look unflinchingly at the stains left behind by life's choices. It looks between what is forgiven, what is forgotten, and what refuses to fade. Inheritance of Longing dares to listen where the world looks away. After all, what do women inherit more deeply - the silence, the story, or the longing itself?
Number of Pages: 152
Dimensions: 0.35 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN
Publication Date: April 10, 2026
