Kandil

Kandil: A Lantern in the Rain is a hybrid memoir in prose and poetry about a woman who travels to Tbilisi looking for music - and finds, unexpectedly, herself.
Born in Hong Kong and sold three days after birth for three hundred dollars, Constance Wang has spent a lifetime navigating the distance between belonging and loss. In Tbilisi, she meets a musician whose warmth and quiet recognition awaken something she had long believed was gone - her capacity to feel completely alive.
What follows is not a conventional love story. It is the story of a woman who had to travel to the other side of the world to understand what was waiting for her at home. Through longing and loss, through unanswered messages and long silences, through tears shed in the dark and words finally spoken out loud, she arrives - not back where she started, but somewhere entirely new.
Kandil is a book for anyone who has ever felt invisible in their own life. For anyone who has loved someone they could not keep, and discovered, in the loving, that they were capable of far more than they knew.
For readers of Maggie Nelson, Rupi Kaur, Ocean Vuong, and Cheryl Strayed.