Writing from the nervous system outward.
A memoir about trauma, embodiment, and the slow work of coming back into the body.
About the book
The body remembers what the mind tries to forget. This memoir begins in Lahore’s diesel air, where a boy learns the intelligence of leaving his body. It carries him across oceans to the United States, where steady, unimaginable love makes healing possible.
With an engineer’s precision and a poet’s pen, the narrative moves through classrooms and dance floors, offices and trails. What once froze begins to thaw. What scattered gathers. From the frightened stillness of a child to the grounded power of a man, he inhabits his body again, breath by breath, nerve by nerve.
Substack
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