The Weight of a Cherry Blossom

A tale of moving between cities, searching for belonging and love amidst rootlessness. Reflects on urban loneliness, self-discovery, and the healing power of kinship. Explores adolescence, adulthood, family, friendship, storytelling, fear, love, and loss. Follows the adventures of a life lived openly through illness, despair, and joy.

If you took a map and pinned each city I''veived in, I''d exist somewhere in the tautness of the string attaching one point to the other. If aife isived across many homes”from balmy Chennai to muggy Mumbai, the crackling expansiveness of Delhi to the breath-taking splendour of Vancouver in spring”where do you truly belong? If you are constantly on the move, is home just what customs can clear? And how do you findove, in the middle of it all, when you do not or cannot stay in one cityong enough? Funny, poignant and reflective, the weight of a Cherry blossom is a fable of rootlessness and belonging in the modern world. It is equal parts a story of urbanoneliness and self-discovery, and of the healing powers of kinship andove. Revisiting the awkwardness of adolescence and the chaos of growing up, itooks The foibles of adulthood irreverent in the eye. Tracing the powerful patterns of family, friendship, storytelling, fear,ove andoss from her childhood to the teetering end of her twenties, Shruti buddhavarapu takes you through the embarrassing yet affirming adventures of aifeived with one''s heart on one''s sleeve”through illness, despair and joy.