Soft as Steel: On Love, Loss, and What We Refuse to Inherit

An intimate memoir exploring how love, loss, and family legacies shape the people we become-and the relationships we choose.

For fifteen years, Anuradda has carved out a profession. Of listening to people describe the life they imagined they would share with someone else. She has witnessed strangers reduce desire to a checklist, doubt molded to certainty, intrigue turn to hope, and a single forceful question: What do I actually need in a partner?

What she did not ask, at least not for a very...