Dear Stranger, You Deserve To Be Loved
There's something quietly arresting about a book that addresses you directly, as though the author already knows what you've been carrying. That's precisely the feeling Ashish Bagrecha creates from the very first page. His premise is disarmingly simple: love sits at the centre of almost everything we do, yet so many of us spend years feeling utterly cut off from it. Some have watched it slip away. Others have dissolved into it and lost themselves entirely. And then there are those who've quietly convinced themselves they were never really worthy of it to begin with. Bagrecha writes for all of them. The book takes the form of thirty letters and poems, each one working through hard-won lessons about self-acceptance, connection, and finding your footing again after the kind of pain that leaves you hollowed out. What gives it real weight is the author's honesty about his own years of feeling unloved, making this far less a prescriptive self-help guide and far more a warm, companionable voice in a difficult moment. It's the sort of writing that doesn't lecture so much as sit beside you. Short enough to dip into, sincere enough to stay with you. If you've ever struggled to believe you're worth loving, this book speaks to that doubt with surprising tenderness.
- Author: Ashish Bagrecha
- Publisher: Harper Collins India
- Genre: Family & Relationships
- ISBN: 978-9356290815
- Pages: 264 pages