Warmth: Words for Anyone Trying to Move On
Rithvik Singh opens this collection with a disarming directness: if you've loved someone, you already know why this book exists. Written in the aftermath of his own heartbreak, 'Warmth' is the kind of work that feels less like a polished product and more like pages torn from somewhere private. Singh describes himself as someone who feels things at an uncomfortable intensity, and you sense that on every page. When the person he loved walked away, he didn't write through the pain so much as gather it up and turn it into something you can hold in your hands. The result is raw, honest, and quietly affecting. Yes, there's grief here, plenty of it. But grief isn't the whole story. Running alongside the hurt is something more stubborn: hope, the sort that doesn't announce itself loudly but refuses to leave. Singh closes with a gentle, personal wish that healing finds its way to the reader, and somehow it doesn't feel like a hollow sentiment. It feels earned. This is a book for anyone sitting with a wound they're not sure will ever close, written by someone who has been in exactly that place and come out the other side still believing that life softens, eventually.
- Author: Rithvik Singh
- Publisher: Ebury Press
- Genre: Short Stories
- ISBN: 978-0143469520
- Pages: 198 pages