The Story Of A Survivor by Ketki [Hardcover]

The Story of a Survivor is a testament of courage; it traces the tender parts of a tumultuously raw yet transformative journey of losing, grieving and eventually returning to oneself, in the wake of neglect and abuse.

Through lyrical prose, Ketki invites the reader into her fragmented inner world, drawing on motherhood, memory, metaphors of the ocean and a deep inner voice to process her pain and reassemble her identity. She confronts emotional gaslighting, internalised sham and cycles of abuse, ultimately reclaiming her truth, her voice and her power. The whale emerges as a central metaphor for her vastness and resilience— symbolising how she grew big enough to survive the depths.

Woven with delicacy and honest reflection, each poem is a standalone piece yet part of a larger emotional arc of the final declaration:

‘All of me for all of you.’