Review: Leave and Come Back by Lavanya Lakshmi

I really like the cover design for Leave and Come Back, it is cute! Cover design by Nayon Cho, cover illustration by Niege Borges, and text design by Alexis Sulaimani. Kavitha’s words come back to her: She and her aunt are so similar, both unable to move past their own sorrow. Grief is a type of myopia, a way of seeing the world in negatives, the empty spaces sharp and clear, the full ones blurry and overlooked. Simran couldn’t see how much she hurt the people around her because it felt like her wound was the biggest. It was so large, it swallowed her whole. And the same thing had happened with Veena perima. page 274 Table of ContentsWhy Leave and Come Back?The BookConcluding Thoughts Why Leave and Come Back? I first saw Leave and Come Back on a list of new books that bookshop.org sent out on the 16th of June, 2026. I have been in the mood for contemporary romance lately and so a debut romance novel caught my eye and when I read the description of the book I immediately placed a…