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MISSED — What We Understand Too Late, book cover by Siva Prasad
A Novel · Siva Prasad

Some people love us easily.
The hard part is loving them back in time.

A father who pedalled twenty kilometres a day. A girl whose name was called just before his. A friend who carried twenty-three years of his life.

Arush carried a sentence for each of them. He delivered none of them in time. MISSED is a novel about being loved, failing to love back in time, and learning — before it costs him anyone else — that the only moment love can be returned is now.

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The Story

Three people he understood too late.

Arush carried a sentence for each of them — and delivered none of them in time.

Twenty kilometres
a day

A father who pedalled that distance so his son would not have to walk — understood only after the bicycle was standing still.

Four years,
every morning

A girl whose name was called just before his, every morning, for four years — and a boy too unsure to close the distance.

Twenty-three
years

A friend who carried that much of his life — and died before Arush could say how much he had mattered.

MISSED is a novel about being loved, failing to love back in time, and learning — before it costs him anyone else — that the only moment love can be returned is now.

A dictionary for the heart: emotion, /mist/ — the moment you finally understand something after it can no longer be changed.

MISSED — a dictionary for the heart

Why Read It

It has a name now.

A feeling you've carried

You have carried something for years that you could never name. This book names it.

People you'll recognise

There are four people in this book. You will recognise at least two of them.

Not what you'd expect

It is not a sad book. It is a funny book about sad things.

What readers do after

Nobody finishes this book and cries. They finish it and call someone.

Some people love us easily. The hard part is loving them back in time.
Who It's For

For the people who show love without saying it.

For the father

who drove you everywhere and told you nothing.

For the husband

who fixes things instead of saying them.

For the brother

you stopped asking.

For the friend

who says he's fine.

Some conversations are easier to start with a book than a sentence. Leave it on his side of the bed. Say nothing. Wait.

MISSED, alongside Tuesdays with Morrie, Before the Coffee Gets Cold, When Breath Becomes Air, and The Kite Runner.

A book worth passing on

MISSED. For everyone we understood too late — and everyone we still have time to understand.
Get The Book

Some goodbyes don't end.
They echo.

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Also available in ebook on Apple Books, Google Play Books, Kobo, and other major ebook stores via the universal link above — and in paperback on Notion Press.

MISSED available on Barnes & Noble, Rakuten Kobo, Everand, tolino, Vivlio, Vivlio Libraries, BorrowBox, Gardners, Bookshop.org, and Fable.
Siva Prasad

Author of five books, including Land Your Next Role — see the full shelf on the homepage.