Nilima Khaling Rai is an author based in India. Her debut novel, The Pause, a crime thriller, established her as a writer unafraid of difficult terrain. This Summer I Will Kill Myself is her second book and marks a significant shift in register, from the external architecture of crime to the interior landscape of a woman finding her way back to herself. She writes about the things people carry quietly. About the gap between the life performed and the life lived. About the particular courage it takes to stop being fine. This is her most personal work to date.