From the Window Is Now in the World

Today I held From the Window: The City of What-Ifs in my hands for the first time.

There is always a strange silence after a book arrives. For months, sometimes years, the work lives on screens, in drafts, in late-night revisions and quiet doubts. Then suddenly it exists as an object. Paper. Weight. A spine with a title. A story no longer private.

This novella grew slowly.

It began not with an event, but with a feeling. The experience of watching life from a distance. Of interpreting the world through small gestures, imagined conversations, and unanswered questions. The protagonist does not chase dramatic moments. Instead, she observes. She anticipates. She tries to understand who she is through the way she believes others see her.

From the Window is not a story about movement. It is a story about perception.

Many readers of A Fight for a Cup of Chai know my work through memoir and lived experience. This book walks a different path. It steps into fiction while carrying the same questions that have followed me across countries, professions, and stages of life:

Where do we belong?
How much of ourselves exists only in our own thoughts?
What happens when silence becomes the loudest voice in the room?

Publishing this book also marks another milestone for me. It is one of the first titles released under my imprint, Arti-Facts Publishing. What began as an idea has now become something tangible. A small independent space dedicated to stories of migration, memory, labor, identity, and human dignity.

Holding this book today reminded me that writing is rarely a single achievement. It is a continuation. One story opens the door for the next.

To everyone who has read, encouraged, questioned, supported, or simply followed the journey, thank you. Your presence has shaped this work more than you know.

From the Window: The City of What-Ifs is now available. Here is a link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GNG77DTW

And like all stories, it now belongs to its readers.

— Sanman Thapa
Arti-Facts Publishing
[www.sanmanthapa.com]