Janki’s Reviews > The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone > Status Update

Savouring this as I reflect on my own tryst with intense loneliness in the past year living completely alone surrounded by gentrification that had fallen painfully silent; I leave this city now for home in a couple of days and this has been a work of bittersweet catharsis and an affirmation for the state I was in -"In the absence of love, I found myself clinging hopelessly to the city itself"Laing is a magical writer