IN MY GRANDFATHER'S HOUSE

<p class=ql-align-justify>In her first book of poems science and fiction writer Kamla Dutt shows us the landscapes of longing and memory-the geographies of love nostalgia regret and consolation. With extraordinary sensitivity combining frank emotion with clinical observation she explores public and private realities: complex family ties; heart-ease and heartbreak; the aftermath of Punjab's Partition; alienation in the country of one's birth; the immigrant's imperfect sense of belonging. </p><p class=ql-align-justify>As poet and novelist Nirupama Dutt notes in her preface 'The reader will roam freely through these pages as if through a familiar garden moving from one poem to another guided by the quiet strength and wisdom of someone who has truly lived.'  </p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p><br></p>