My Illegitimate Son: A True Story

Relationships are achingly complex even more so when it’s a father and his accidental love child.Two strangers meet serendipitously. One is an irrepressible mischievous brat and the other abrooding platitudinous bore. Their contrasting individual paths that portend a star-crossed disastersuddenly find a shared future. Fate brings them under the same roof and soon the insolent child’swild roller-coaster mind-numbing life takes centre stage in a moody family’s wacky dysfunctionalabode. What follows is a fantastical journey and that is putting it mildly.Enter an unexpected visitor and soon their lives are completely disarranged. The vicissitudes of lifeare on full display as the father-son duo confront a new reality. The family struggles to grapple withthe new power dynamic as circumstances start spiralling beyond everyone’s control with grievousconsequences.In this exceptional slice-of-life book Sanjay Jha tells us a heart-rending account of love and losshappiness and grief regret and redemption. ‘Grief once it checks in is a permanent guest’ says thetiny protagonist. Is atonement and forgiveness at all possible or is it just a desperate human urgefor finding inner peace? Is time eventually the only true healer? Can we really move on?In My Illegitimate Son Sanjay Jha narrates a stirringly poignant story which has both riotous laughterand abundant sorrow that might just find an echo with your own.