Lakshmi Iyer

Achievements

A Star Keeps Its Distance

Books by Lakshmi Iyer

A Star Keeps Its Distance

Amaya Stein is twenty-eight years old, professionally capable, and very good at not wanting things she can't name.

She has a novel she is not writing. A biopsy scheduled for next week. And a K-pop assignment she did not ask for — her editor, who is also her aunt, has sent her to cover MYNX, one of the biggest acts in the world, at the height of their global tour.

Amaya arrives skeptical. She leaves change

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A Star Keeps Its Distance

Books by Lakshmi Iyer

A Star Keeps Its Distance

Amaya Stein is twenty-eight years old, professionally capable, and very good at not wanting things she can't name.

She has a novel she is not writing. A biopsy scheduled for next week. And a K-pop assignment she did not ask for — her editor, who is also her aunt, has sent her to cover MYNX, one of the biggest acts in the world, at the height of their global tour.

Amaya arrives skeptical. She leaves change

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The Smudged Hyphen

Books by Lakshmi Iyer

There is a word in Tamil that English has no equivalent for. Idam. It means place, but also space, but also belonging. You say it when you are looking for where you fit. You say it when you have found something.

Lakshmi Iyer has been asking idam enge, where is my place, since she left Madras at twenty-five with a suitcase and an arranged marriage and landed in southeastern Pennsylvania, where the winters were grey and the nearest temple was a Sunday dr

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The Smudged Hyphen

Books by Lakshmi Iyer

There is a word in Tamil that English has no equivalent for. Idam. It means place, but also space, but also belonging. You say it when you are looking for where you fit. You say it when you have found something.

Lakshmi Iyer has been asking idam enge, where is my place, since she left Madras at twenty-five with a suitcase and an arranged marriage and landed in southeastern Pennsylvania, where the winters were grey and the nearest temple was a Sunday dr

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Hindsight

Books by Lakshmi Iyer

The last day of college. Her friends ahead at the bus stop. A book left under a tree. She turned back alone.

She did not come back the same.

Fifteen years later, in a Philadelphia conference room, she is face to face with the one person who was there that night and walked away.

Hindsight is a novel about what is taken from a woman when no one will name it. And what it costs, for everyone, when someone finally does.

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