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The Gap

A Story in Memories and One Letter Never Sent

Syed Muhammad Hur Jaffri◇
Literary fiction / Memory & Absence

The Gap

A Story in Memories and One Letter Never Sent

By Syed Muhammad Hur Jaffri

A story of a son, a father, and the distance held in ordinary moments.

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  1. 01Opening pages
  2. 02PART ONE — Memories of a Boy Who Kept Trying
  3. 03One — The First Thing I Remember
  4. 04Two — The Report Card
  5. 05Three — What Dinner Tables Taught Me
  6. 06Four — Tariq and the Architecture of Comparison
  7. 07Five — Small Victories, Smaller Silences
  8. 08Six — The Language He Spoke Instead
  9. 09Seven — The Day I Needed Him and He Came Close
  10. 10PART TWO — The Accumulation of Small Things
  11. 11Eight — What Water Does to Stone
  12. 12Nine — Things I Achieved That He Found a Way Around
  13. 13Ten — My Sister Knew
  14. 14Eleven — The Gap Has a Geography
  15. 15PART THREE — The Letter
  16. 16Twelve — Why I Am Writing This Now
  17. 17Thirteen — The Letter

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