After his acclaimed debut Bonds, S. N. Kashyap returns with Knots, a literary collection exploring cross-cultural identity, resilience, and the quiet turning points that redefine relationships.

Spanning Prague’s cobblestone streets, rural Pennsylvania, and contemporary India, these five stories examine what it means to belong — to a place, to a family, to an adopted culture, and ultimately to oneself. Characters move between geographies and expectations, navigating generational tension, ambition, secrecy, and desire as they confront who they are versus who they are expected to be.

Czech, Please follows a journey of reluctant self-discovery amid the enchantment and estrangement of Prague.

Calvin and Hopes explores friendship, rivalry, and cultural displacement ; and the unsettling possibility of standing outside time.

In Eyes of Truth, a flamboyant pathologist and an enigmatic research assistant unravel hidden identities and dangerous desires while investigating a disappearance in small-town America.

Know Strings Attached traces two women reconnecting across continents as they confront fractured marriages and inherited expectations.

To Be or Knot charts a single mother’s path toward independence, success, and love — negotiated between tradition and self-determination.

Character-driven and psychologically nuanced, Knots considers how identity is shaped not only by choice, but by culture, migration, and memory. These stories reveal how the smallest decisions, made at the intersection of worlds, can bind us more tightly than we realize.