Weaving Fire: A Novel of Transformation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798859536795)

Set on a group of houseboats in Srinagar during the 2019 military lockdown of Kashmir, Weaving Fire tells a story of what happens when we choose vulnerability. Can healing be forged in a forced community of confinement? Do love and hope have space in the wreckage of lives dismantled?

Bridget, dedicated to preserving a thousand years of artisanship at the expense of confronting her own past, finds shelter with Hasan, the fatherly butler devoted to restraint and his white gloves. Journalist Priam Parker joins them in the Garden, seeking distraction from the violence that haunts his career. He collects stories of redemption, desperate to believe they can be found. Priam and Hasan's long and murky history binds them irrevocably, tying them in turn to Mr. Khan, the portly owner of this paradise in decline. As their divorce from the outer world stretches on, the Garden's inhabitants confront the fragments of their former lives, their forced intimacy, and their relative privilege. Ultimately, the Garden will test the resilience of their hope in ways they could never have imagined. Who will they become in response to their temporarily shared destiny?