Author

Sarah Ahmad

A poet, yogi and dreamer shaped by two cities — Karachi, where she was raised, and Istanbul, where she continues to grow.

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The book

The Inheritance of Soft Things

The Inheritance of Soft Things is a poetry collection about the quiet education of love — how it is learned, practiced, and carried through everyday gestures. Rooted in family, womanhood, and ritual, these poems honour tenderness as something inherited rather than chosen, shaped by the presence of two grandmothers who teach love without naming it.

Moving through kitchens, conversations, bodies, and memory, the book explores how softness becomes a form of knowing, and how love is shaped long before it is named.

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The Inheritance of Soft Things — front cover

The themes

What this book is about .

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Love as something learned rather than chosen

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Two grandmothers who teach it without ever naming it

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Kitchens, conversations, bodies, memory

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Softness treated as a form of knowing

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Two cities, and the shifting shape of home

Behind The Book

About the Author

Sarah Ahmad is a poet, yogi, and dreamer shaped by two cities — Karachi, where she was raised, and Istanbul, where she continues to grow. Her writing lives in the quiet spaces between memory and ritual, drawing deeply from the shifting shapes of home.

The Inheritance of Soft Things is her first published book, a collection rooted in the love and legacy of the grandmothers who shaped her beginnings.