Interleaved chapters tell of Brahma in a minor key: not as an aloof creator, but as a solitary figure who once wandered towns to learn how mortals named joy. He collects small artifacts—an unfinished song, a child's skipping rope—and in wasting them he learns to stitch laughter back into the world. Each mythic vignette refracts Mira's attempts to reclaim joy for her own life: mending a strained marriage, coaxing a son from grief, reimagining failure as part of making.
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