The Shape of Separation

Aboard a residential ship, a woman has arranged a deliberate life at a distance from the noise of the wider world. When Elias arrives, the bond between them grows through recognition, as each seems able to see beyond the other’s language and social performance.

Outside pressures and competing accounts of truth gradually alter their shared space. This atmospheric novel follows the tension between perception and connection, considering what love can hold when certainty changes and what remains of a meaningful bond after the illusions surrounding it begin to dissolve.