Akshat Thakur

Blossom Fell: a book about solitude, love, and drowning endlessly Akshat Thakur

Veer, a callow everyman, suddenly finds himself chained to the moon. Bearing the weight of the sky breaks his back each night, adding insomnia to the list of his unresolved issues, right below years of loneliness, isolation, and alienation. With the help of his beautiful and devoted wife, Hana, he finds out that the only way to free himself is to pawn the moon off to someone else - the challenge is that they need to willingly take it from him. Meanwhile, an esoteric goddess is caged by the sun, and her existence disappears; the only way for her to escape is by hiding the star away from the world. An introspective dive into a drowning man's psyche, Blossom Fell takes us to the secluded world of a young man's many heartbreaks and his struggle to find something genuine in an absurd place where cruelty is law. Akshat Thakur is 21 year old writer, poet, and musician. Think Haruki Murakami meets Albert Camus. His work explores themes of detachment and commitment, as well as, the lifetime repercussions of dealing with trauma in unhealthy ways and considers the best solutions for unburdening oneself of the anguish and confusion that comes with existing in a world where we're all Sisyphus with our respective boulders.