Jaya's Paper Heart: & Other Tales of Resistance

"Speculative fiction with teeth, beauty, and a fierce feminist pulse." —Reedsy Discovery

A Delhi laundromat becomes a doorway to another world, a woman paints storms into existence, a purveyor of poisonous teas deals in death, and in an amnesiac world, a woman searches for herself. Each story conjures its own reality and plays by its own strange rules.

In thirteen stories, Sabina Malik dissolves the borders between fairy tale and dystopia, romance and rebellion, the everyday and the impossibl...