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Learning to Make Tea for One - Reflections on Love, Loss and Healing
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Biographies GeneralDeath & Dying
ISBN13: 9789354477553
Publisher: Speaking Tiger Books
Published: May 10 2025
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
In the summer of 2021, India was throttled by the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hospitals were running out of oxygen and the daily news recorded the soaring death count. Families were torn apart as beloved ones were quarantined or confined in intensive care units and lost to the deadly virus-leaving survivors without even a chance to say goodbye.
In that cruel summer, Andaleeb Wajid lost her mother-in-law, and then just five days later, her husband, even as she was hospitalised with COVID herself. Wajid's grief struggled to find words as she returned to a home that was shorn of the love that had once inhabited it and was now empty, but for her two children. Wajid finally turned to her writing to make sense of it all. She found herself wanting to tell the story of her life and her loss. She chronicled her family life, of growing up as a cherished daughter of a father whom she lost too
early. She wrote about her marriage, the happy companionship that marked it, and the many ways in which her husband and she looked at life so very
differently. She described the incredible joys and the unbearable pain of motherhood too.
Learning to Make Tea for One is Andaleeb Wajid's journey through her grief. She tells her story with truth and courage, looking at death squarely in the face as she learns to make tea for one. It is a story that will deeply touch anyone who has faced loss and pain.
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