What Happens In Between is a quiet work of literary nonfiction that explores the invisible shifts shaping our lives while we are busy living them.
Rather than focusing on moments of arrival or dramatic change, the book pays attention to the ongoing middle: the days that do not resolve cleanly, the decisions made without ceremony, and the responsibilities that continue without pause or recognition.
Written from lived experience but not structured as a memoir, the book unfolds as a continuous narrative of reflective movements. Each section observes how life reorganizes itself through small adjustments, internal recalibrations, and quiet forms of competence that rarely announce themselves. These shifts are not framed as lessons or strategies, but as recognition.
As the narrative progresses, context emerges gradually: a life operating inside complexity, responsibility carried without clear definitions, and decisions made alongside work, caregiving, and long-term ambition. Intimacy forms without direct disclosure.
The book introduces micro-shifting not as a framework, but as a familiar phenomenon, naming how progress and identity evolve while attention is focused elsewhere. It challenges the idea that meaningful change must be visible or narratable.
This book is for readers who are still in the middle of things, building, carrying, and adjusting without certainty of arrival. It meets them where they are, and stays there with them.
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Manya Jha
Manya is a deep-tech entrepreneur who has spent over a decade working at the intersection of technology, impact, and real-world constraints. She is also a mother.
She builds companies and products while living fully inside the complexity that such work demands. Her days are shaped by decision-making, responsibility, care, and continuous adaptation, not as opposing forces, but as parts of a single, evolving life.
What Happens In Between is not her story in the traditional sense. It is a reflection shaped by living a life in motion, one where ambition and responsibility coexist, and where growth often happens quietly, without announcement.
Manya believes that much of women’s intelligence, capability, and becoming remains unnamed, not because it is small, but because it unfolds in ways that resist neat definitions. This book is her way of offering language for those spaces.
She lives and works in India, building things that matter, while becoming, like so many women, in the in-between.
