The Hindu
Yuvan Aves, like many other people in the city, is still grappling with the after-effects of the 2023 Chennai floods. Written in beautiful, lucid prose, this deeply immersive, exquisitely detailed and moving book crisscrosses multiple urban landscapes—Urur Olcott Kuppam, the Kaliveli Estuary, Kovalam, Ennore, Pulicat, even the balcony in his Velachery home—over two years and three monsoons, taking the reader …