The Last Page: A page for every bad day. Except one.

By Suri

A page for every bad day. Except one.Lucknow, 2011. Nikhil Rathore has just failed his engineering entrance for the second time. On the steps of Kudiya Ghat, a monsoon gust throws a stranger's sketchbook into his face.Zoya Siddiqui stitches shadows into white muslin in the lanes of old Lucknow, and dreams of sewing the names of unseen karigars inside every garment she designs. She feeds Nikhil the city one dish at a time: galouti at dawn, basket chaat in Hazratganj, makhan malai that vanishes with the sun. Then she makes him say his real dream out loud to the river.Over kachoris carried across the Gomti in a mother's tiffin and nihari eaten before first light, two families on opposite banks learn that their fears are the same fear, living in different kitchens. Nikhil promises never to stop chasing his dream. Zoya keeps a blue notebook, written for the days he forgets, and a secret she cannot stitch closed.The Last Page is a novel of ambition, loss and the long, lonely road to becoming someone, set in a city caught between what it was and what it is becoming. Each chapter opens with an original sher by the author and closes with a line from that blue notebook.Tender, heartbreaking and quietly hopeful, it is for everyone who was ever told kal aana, come back tomorrow, and came back anyway.Chal aaj ek waada ye bhi kar le, / Phir kabhi humse milne ka... / Poora hua to teri mohabbat, / Adhoora raha to meri kismat... Suri

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HMVVLL2M
• ISBN13: 9798908171601
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Notion Press
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 13 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary