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A Story About Love. Not a Love Story.
A South Asian woman crossed an ocean for her dreams and ended up lost, lonely, and invisible. Over the next 1,000 days, she unlearned who she was told to be. A true story.
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2,600+
books sold across the world
Times Square
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1 of 15
writers selected worldwide for Faber Academy's novel-writing program
500,000+
followers across social media
What this book is
A novel that reads like a story and stays with you like a mentor.
1000 Days of Love is the story of Riya, a twenty-five-year-old South Asian immigrant who moves to San Francisco hoping a new city will make her a new person. Six months later, she's fallen, bruised, and ready to give up. That's when she meets Sri, a man dying from Parkinson's, yet more alive than anyone she's ever met. Over the next 1,000 days, a stranger becomes family, and Riya becomes someone she never thought she could be.
There are no soulmates or meet-cutes in this. But you'll laugh, you'll cry, and you'll wish it didn't end.
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"Will I enjoy this book?"
Everyone will take away something. But for some, it'll be life-changing.
If you're looking for a mentor
Riya didn't have one either. Watch what happens when someone finally shows up for her, and what she does with it.
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If you've been feeling alone
Riya knows what it's like to wake up wanting to escape back into sleep. Reading her story, you'll feel a little less alone.
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If you want more from life
If you've caught yourself wondering, "Is this all there is?", Riya asked it too. Her answer took 1,000 days.
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If you live far from home
Riya is a South Asian immigrant building a life in San Francisco, far from home. If you've done it, or you're about to, you'll see yourself in her.
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If you want deeper relationships
Riya and Sri weren't family by blood. They became the father she always wanted and the daughter he never had. You'll come away knowing what it takes to build a bond like that.
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Nothing has to be wrong for something to change.
There's a phase you go through in life when the thing you most crave is human connection, and yet it hurts to be around people. You crave belonging, yet pull away from anyone who comes close. The hardest moment is right before you close your eyes at night, when you see your life in perfect clarity.
This book was born out of unbearable loneliness. What happens next redefines what love and loss mean for Riya... and maybe for you too.
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2,600+ readers and counting.
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"I honestly can't remember the last time I read fiction, but man this was so beautiful. It felt like I was with you."
Abhijjith
Of everyone who read it early, one piece of feedback came back almost universally: "I could not stop flipping pages."
“Netflix: 0. 1000 Days of Love: 1. This book replaced my Grey’s Anatomy.”
“If you don’t read this book, you don’t truly understand love.”
“I cannot sleep. It felt like watching a thriller movie.”
“I cried three or four times reading it. I could literally feel that tightness in my chest. It landed straight into the heart of a South Asian woman who felt every word in her bones.”
“I literally had a dream about it. That’s how good it was.”
“I started the book thinking I'd just read 5 pages… and now I'm completely glued to it. I've already smiled so many times while reading — it's just so relatable.”
“It feels like Riya is a part of me. I felt all the emotions that she felt in the story.”
“This book got me out of a reading slump. I'm only halfway through the second chapter, but I can already see myself finishing it.”
“I laughed a lot reading it. This is not a one-time read — I'll keep coming back to it again and again.”
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Meet the author
Five years. Five drafts. 1,000+ hours.
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Soundarya Balasubramani is the author of Admitted and Unshackled. 1000 Days of Love is her third book and first novel. She was one of 15 writers selected from around the world for Faber Academy's novel-writing program in London. She wrote it across farms in Chennai, Bangalore, and Montana, and finished it inside a trailer by the California coast. (Some parts were even written in a tiny library in Sydney 🇦🇺)
Sri was inspired by a real person. In July 2021, Soundarya was connected to a stranger named Rajesh Setty. One email became thousands of conversations, and a mentor became family.
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