About the Book: Happily ever after: A Novel with Images
In happily ever after, a woman, on her fifth drink, or maybe the sixth,
struggles to make sense of her marriage—the reasons to stay and to flee tugging
at her with equal force. What follows is one of the most compelling dissections
yet into the heart of a relationship—a relationship that has known rage and
violence, repugnance and despair, but also one that has borne witness to
tenderness and intimacy and promise. In Kamal Trilok Singhs debut, nothing is as
it appears—love is a gloved fist; marriage is, at once, a stone and a bird;