'Will I find the solace tree'neath whichI can curl up like a mongrelfor a slumber?'In October Sun, Nadia Jesmine Rahman gathers the shifting seasons of life-its griefs, its soft astonishments, its quiet rebellions and turns them into luminous, intimate verse.Moving through childhood alleys, rain-soaked cities, ancestral silences, and the tender spaces of love, these poems hold the world gently. Here, the world is made of little things-a fallen leaf, a mongrel's wail, the hum of a prayer, a pressed flower, a whisper of spring.With a voice both vulnerable and bold, Nadia writes of losing and finding oneself, of homes carried inside the body, and of the stubborn ways hope returns.A collection for anyone who has ever longed, healed, or bloomed again.