She will never sit down
and write it.
Ask her to fill in a website and she will say just come over, we’ll talk. So we do the talking. Oshin calls her, in her language, on the phone she already uses. It calls her sister, her oldest friend, you. Then it writes the book and sends it to your door.
Encrypted end to end · Never trained on · Yours to delete, any time
What makes it a book
One life. Everyone who was there.
The weekly-question services ask one person, once a week, in English. Half of what you want is not in her memory at all. It is in her sister’s, and her sister does not live here.
If they answer in Hindi, Tamil, Turkish or Mandarin, the book still comes out in the language you want to read it in — and her words stay hers underneath.
Your mother
“Tell me about the kitchen in Karol Bagh.”
Mini
“Who taught her to measure like that?”
Ramesh
“What did she say the night before?”
You
“What have you never asked her?”
The promise
Nothing is invented.
Every sentence traces back to something somebody actually said. Tap any line and hear the recording it came from. When two people remember the same night differently, both versions go in, and the book says who remembered what. Where nobody remembers, it says that too.
What a book costs
One thousand dollars,
start to finish.
- ✓One printed hardcover, delivered — digital edition included
- ✓As many conversations as it takes, for as long as it takes
- ✓However many people contribute, no charge per person
- ✓Interviews in her language, on her phone
- ✓A finished chapter in the first week — full refund if it is not right
- ✓Extra copies $85 each
Emails one person one question a week for a year. English only. You sort the chapters yourself at the end.
$99/yrCalls everyone who was there, in their language, and hands you a finished book.
$1,000A person interviews the family and writes it. Three months to a year.
$25,000+
Start with twenty minutes.
That is enough for a first chapter. Read it before you decide anything else — you will know far more about whether there is a book here than you do now.