Paper Plane

Growing up through Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war, his Muslim home was neutral territory, a place of peace, if you kept your mouth shut. His family’s plan for him was simple: build a future in business, marry the girl they chose, and bury the rest – his doubts, his music, even the parts of himself that didn’t fit.

But London doesn’t let the past lie still.

When he meets Maya – a razor-sharp diasporic woman who sees through his careful performance – Zed is pulled into a reckoning. The war he thought he’d left behind follows him across borders, stirring unrest back home and suspicion abroad. And as his lies begin to fracture, Zed must confront the truth he’s long denied: that belonging isn’t silence, and safety isn’t always worth the cost.

Torn between two countries and two versions of himself, Zed must decide what it means to be whole, and how to sing his truth at full volume – before the future he desires explodes.

Paper Plane is a lyrical, shattering debut about identity, displacement, and the courage it takes to make your inner life visible. For anyone who’s ever lived between cultures, between languages, or between truths – this is your story.