Rohit Age 34 years · How books helped him slow down, heal, and grow after a personal tragedy. Two years ago I lost my younger brother in an accident. He was twenty-eight. I am not going to write about the grief itself —I don’t have the words for it, and

Uma Age 65 years · Rekindling lifelong reading habits. I was a reader once. A serious one. In my twenties I kept a journal of every book I finished —the date, a line or two about how it made me feel. I filled three notebooks. Then life arrived in full:

Kiyaan Age 5 years · Loves reading after school. After school my bag is very heavy. It has my water bottle and my lunchbox and my pencil case and sometimes a rock I found. Amma says I don’t need the rock but I like it. When I get home I

Ritika & Rajiv Age 35 & 41 · Rediscovering bonding time with kids through reading. Honestly, I don’t know when it happened. One day Rajiv and I were the most important people in our daughters’ world, and the next —or so it felt —they had their tablets, their TV shows,