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Do Not Follow

by Surbhi Bansal

A return to family and unfinished choices

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A return to family and unfinished choices

Seema’s return to Albany after seventeen years brings her back into contact with the family and past she left behind. A former promising surgeon who now runs a consignment store, she helps her mother sort through the family home following her father’s death. The book brings together bereavement, immigrant experience, and the consequences of life choices, using the work of clearing a home as the setting for Seema’s reckoning with family relationships and identity. Its central tension lies between the life Seema built away from home and the ties she must face on returning.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Adults interested in family relationships and intergenerational ties.
  • Readers seeking fiction about immigrant experience and questions of identity.
  • Readers interested in stories involving grief, reconciliation, and life choices.

Themes

Family dynamicsImmigrant experienceGrief and reconciliationIdentity and self-discoveryLife choices

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Book overview

Do Not Follow is a poignant and deeply relatable story of family, identity, and self-discovery. When Seema, a middle-aged consignment store owner, is forced to return to her hometown of Albany after seventeen years, she must confront the ghosts of her past, the family she left behind, and the choices that shaped her life. Once a promising surgeon, Seema's life took a detour after a string of failed relationships. Now, as she helps her mother sort through the clutter of their family home after her father's death, Seema embarks on an emotional journey of grief, healing, and reconciliation.

Outlining the immigrant experience and navigating the highways of life, love, and loss, Do Not Follow showcases the complexities of family dynamics and the universal struggle to find one's place in the world. It's a reminder that sometimes, the road to healing begins where the past and present collide.

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