Half-Lives

Three strangers. Three cities. One truth they didn’t know they were all living.In Hyderabad, Aanya buries herself in medical textbooks and dreams deferred, haunted by a choice that changed everything. In London, Isaac hides his grief behind dry humor and lonely tube rides, avoiding a family that doesn’t see him. And in New York, Zo dances between designer gigs and dissociation, escaping a memory she’s tried too hard to forget.When an anonymous journal arrives in each of their hands, scrawled with confessions, fragments, and questions, it pulls them into a web of shared loss, buried secrets, and an incident that connects their lives in unexpected ways. The deeper they go, the more they realize this isn’t just someone else's story—it’s theirs too.Half-Lives is a lyrical and emotionally charged debut about grief, identity, and the fragile beauty of human connection. In a world that often splits us into halves—of where we belong, who we love, and who we’re expected to be—this is a story of three people trying to become whole. Read more