Memories of a Future

Memories of a Future has won the International Impact Book Awards, January 2026, in the category Contemporary Fiction - Mental Health & Emotional Struggles.

I started writing this novel in 2018, after a fire destroyed my home. Standing outside the building, still smelling the smoke, I found myself asking: Who am I without all the materialistic things I thought defined me? At first, I thought I had lost everything. But then I reflected on it more deeply. Did I really lose anything? My family was safe, and so was everyone else in the building. So what did I really lose? The printed photos that I thought stored my memories? The cars