Your Lie in July is a lyrical, genre-defying memoir told through fragments of prose and poetry. It traces the journey of a long-distance relationship that begins with serendipity and ends in abandonment — a love that arrives like monsoon rain and withers away like leaves in autumn.

At the heart of the book is Hela, a British girl who enters the narrator’s life unexpectedly and redefines everything he thought he knew about connection, affection, and vulnerability. They never meet in person, yet their bond is visceral — carried by voice notes, midnight messages, shared music, and poetry. Through months of laughter, dreams, poetry, promises, and confessions, Hela becomes the muse, the beautiful disaster, and the home he never had.

But like many great loves, this too unravels. Slowly. Quietly. Irreversibly. One day, Hela vanishes — not with a break-up, not with closure, but with absence. The book doesn’t follow...