Riya TI. is a writer and poet.
The Tender and the Strange is her first book of short fiction. The 5 stories travel from a brunch table to a Breton village, from a 1954
English garden to an Indian household where nobody has ever written the rules down. What holds them together is a single interest: the small, odd, private things people do to keep themselves upright, and the love folded inside those habits.