{"product_id":"a-person-is-a-prayer-hardcover","title":"A Person Is a Prayer - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAmmar Kalia\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn intensely moving, lyrical and often funny novel about a family whose story of migration from Kenya and India to England is told over three separate days, across six decades. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Bedi and Sushma's marriage is arranged. When they first meet, they stumble through a faltering conversation about happiness and hope and agree to go in search of these things together. But even after their children Selena, Tara and Rohan are grown up and have their own families, Bedi and Sushma are still searching. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Years later, the siblings attempt to navigate life without their parents. As they travel to the Ganges to unite their father's ashes with the opaque water, it becomes clear that each of them has inherited the same desire to understand what makes a life happy, the same confusion about this question and the same enduring hope. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Person is a Prayer\u003c\/i\u003e plumbs the depths of the spaces between family members and the silence that rushes in like a flood when communication deteriorates. It is about how short a life is and how the choices we make can ripple down generations.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmmar Kalia\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, musician and journalist living in London. Since 2019, he has been the\u003ci\u003e Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e's Global Music Critic and he has written for publications including the \u003ci\u003eObserver, BBC, Dazed, Mixmag, Economist, Downbeat\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCrack Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2020 he published a collection of poetry and an accompanying album, \u003ci\u003eKintsugi: Jazz Poems for Musicians Alive And Dead\u003c\/i\u003e, and in 2022 his essay on music and identity was included in the collection \u003ci\u003eHaramacy\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eA Person Is A Prayer \u003c\/i\u003eis Kalia's debut novel and was shortlisted for the Unbound Firsts Prize in 2022.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 11.3 x 7.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47457276461234,"sku":"9780857305855","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/e35c467cca732dc12d5d40ba92103d05.webp?v=1778878692","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/a-person-is-a-prayer-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}